Guattari, Felix

Machinic Unconscious (Semiotext

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ISBN 13:: 9781584350880
author:: Guattari, Felix
format:: Paperback
publisher:: MIT Press
language:: English
Publication Year:: 2011
Pages:: 328
Dimensions:: 22.8 x 15.2 x 2.7 cm
Genre:: Philosophy
Condition:: New
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Félix Guattari's seminal work, The Machinic Unconscious: Essays in Schizoanalysis, lays the groundwork for a general pragmatics capable of resisting the semiotic enslavement of subjectivity. In this influential solo-authored study, Guattari outlines a schizoanalytic theory to undo the capitalist structure of psychoanalytic theory and set the discipline back on its feet. Combining theoretical research from diverse fields such as cybernetics, semiotics, ethnology, and ethology, Guattari reintroduces into psychoanalysis a "polemical" dimension that brings out the social and political potential of the unconscious. This approach is illustrated through an analysis of Proust's In Search of Lost Time, examining the novel in a scientific style reminiscent of Freud or Newton. By exploring the machinic potential of the unconscious, Guattari offers a new perspective on psychoanalysis, one that is transhuman, transsexual, and transcosmic. This book provides a thought-provoking exploration of the intersection of theory and practice in psychoanalytic discourse.

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