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At the [[time]] of its publication in 1972, <i>[[Anti-Oedipus]]</i> had an explosive impact. In a [[state]] of high excitement, and still shaken by the events of May [[1968]], the [[French]] intelligentsia greeted this work by a renowned [[philosopher]] and an antiestablishment [[psychoanalyst]] as a revolutionary brick through the window of [[psychoanalysis]]. Deleuze said of his collaboration with Guattari, "We don't work together, we work between the two of us".
The Oedipus [[complex]], which [[psychoanalysts]] describe as a fundamental and unavoidable step in the [[psychic]] [[structuring]] of the healthy [[child]], was denounced by the authors as an "[[impasse]]." The [[unconscious]] was a production, a fabrication, a flow. Accordingly, there was no such [[thing]] as a [[desiring]] [[subject]], but rather flows of [[desire]] that are independent of and that [[traverse]] [[The Subject|the subject]]. These points of traversal of [[desire,]] this flow, [[exists]] in opposition to [[lack]], to the Law. "Lack ([[manque]]) is created, planned, and organized through [[social]] production." [[Being]] essentially revolutionary, desire is the [[enemy]] of [[capitalist]] [[society]], which psychoanalysis [[defends]] and protects.
The [[family]] is the first source of the work of [[repression]] operating in the flow of desire: "The family is thus introduced into the production of desire, and from earliest [[childhood]] it will effect a [[displacement]] of desire, an unheard-of repression." All of capitalism's efforts—and those of psychoanalysis—will go toward trying to maintain these flows of desire and "reterritorializing" [[them]] by imposing limits; on the interior, Oedipus, on the [[outside]], as "the absolute [[limit]] of every society" (p. 266), schizophrenia: "The [[Oedipal]] [[triangle]] is the personal and private territoriality that corresponds to all of capitalism's efforts at social reterritorialization" (p. 266).
The "schizoanalysis" invented by the authors is defined as "a [[whole]] scouring of the unconscious, a [[complete]] curettage" (p. 311). The [[thesis]] of schizoanalysis proposes that desire is a [[machine]], in fact, interconnected machines—"desiring-machines." This assemblage of machines represents the [[real]] and constitutes the production of desire. Psychoanalysis is described as a [[belief]] in a [[structural]] ensemble of the [[symbolic]] and the [[imaginary]] that Deleuze and Guattari characterize as a [[mythical]] belief. They radically challenge the [[Oedipus Complex|Oedipus complex ]] and accuse psychoanalysis of "beating down all the connections, the entire arrangement" because it "hates desire, hates [[politics]]." The two authors reject the [[idea]] of any psychic [[reality]]: "There is only desire and the social, and [[nothing]] else." Schizoanalysis, with its [[schizophrenic]] [[process]], a "[[political]] and social psychoanalysis" proposes to "undo the expressive oedipal unconscious, which is always artificial, repressive and [[repressed]], and mediated by the family, to gain access to the immediate productive unconscious."
The authors are careful to distinguish between schizophrenia as a [[structure]] and the schizophrenic as an entity. The latter is sick from the oedipalization that society attempts to impose upon him, but he represents the emblematic [[figure]] of the revolutionary, who is in a [[position]] to say, "Oedipus? Never heard of it" (p. 366). The schizophrenic process is revolutionary; its [[goal]] is to "show the [[existence]] of an unconscious [[libidinal]] investment of socio-historical production." Here, schizoanalytic production is the opposite of [[psychoanalytic]] expression.
Proponents of antipsychiatry, in [[particular]] Ronald D. Laing, proved to be valuable allies to Deleuze and Guattari. In effect, [[madness]] is described not so much as a collapse but rather as a breakthrough. The goal of schizoanalysis is to enable the flows, to "tirelessly undo/defeat the egos and their assumptions." and it "makes no [[distinction]] in [[nature]] between political [[economy]] and libidinal economy."
