Schizoanalysis and Ecosophy Reading Deleuze and Guattari [Hardcover]

This volume presents the concepts of schizoanalysis and ecosophy as Felix Guattari and Gilles Deleuze understood them, in interviews and analyses by their contemporaries and followers.

This accessible yet authoritative introduction is written by distinguished specialists, combining testimonies from some of Guattari's colleagues at the La Borde psychiatric clinic where he practiced, with expository essays on his main ideas, schizoanalysis and ecosophy, as well as his relations with Lacan. The last section of the book deals with the subsequent creative application of those ideas by his philosophical and psychoanalytic followers situated within the contemporary moment. This collection also provides the crucial historical context of France at the time Guattari was developing his concepts, including the role of the Maoists and the significance of the political situation in Algeria.

Introduction, Constantin V. Boundas, Trent University, Canada

Part I
1. Anne Querrien, An Interview with Constantin V. Boundas
2. 'A Personal Testimony' Elizabeth Kouki, psychoanalyst at La Borde clinic 1976-1982
3. 'What is Schizoanalysis?' Jean Claude Polack, former psychiatrist and psychoanalyst at La Borde clinic, France
4. What is Ecosophy?' Manola Antonioli, ?cole Sup?rieure d' Art et de Design de Valenciennes, France
5. 'Schizoanalysis and Ecosophy: Scales of History and Action' Anne Querrien and Andrew Goffey, (translated by Andrew Goffey), University of Nottingham, UK
6. 'Heterogenesis, Ecosophy and Dissent' Jean-Sebastien Laberge,University of Ottawa, Canada
7. 'Degrees of Freedom: Felix Guattari's Schizoanalytic Cartographies', Hanjo Berressem, University of Cologne, Germany
8. 'The Desiring Machines do not die: Impersonal Death and Feeling of Eternity' Oleg Lebedev, Universit? Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
9. 'Beyond the Lacanian Phallo-arborocentrism: the Phallus as a Rhizome and the Object a as a Desiring-machine', Charis Raptis,lƒ/