Felix Guattari

Felix Guattari , born the April 30th 1930 with Villeneuve-the-Fine sands (Oise), dead the August 29th 1992 with the Clinique of Borders (Court-Cheverny, Loir-et-Cher) is a Psychanalyste and a Philosophe French.

Biography

Near to Jean Oury and its Fernand brother, he worked all his life with the Clinique of Borders, high place of the institutional Psychothérapie. He followed a long time the seminar of Jacques Lacan, which was its psychoanalyst. He took his distances with the “lacanism” with the wire of his collaboration with Gilles Deleuze (it is him the inventor of the word “deterritorialisation”), trying to join again with inventiveness first Psychanalyse, and found some echoes in particular in practice Brazilian. Militant very on the left, it supported many causes of minorities in a mondialized context (near the Palestinians in 1976, support for the Italian opéraïstes in 1977, for the process of Re-democratization of the Brésil starting from 1979, etc) It also made party of the collective of support for the candidature of Coluche for the presidential campaign of 1981.

Philosophy

Felix Guattari does not believe that it is possible to insulate the element Inconscient in the language or to structure it in meaning horizons. The unconscious one on the contrary refers to a whole social, economic and political field. The objects of the Désir are determined like coextensive reality with the social field (and consequently with that defined by the political economy).

A cartography of the Subjectivity, to have an analytical range, must according to him demolish of all ideal of scientificity . It asseoit on a percussion criticism of the modes of subjectivation subordinates to the identity mode and the model of the representation, on what the psychoanalyst and collaborator Suely Rolnik calls “it Malayan in the difference”. The ethical guattarienne consists in opposing to this ideal an ontological constructivism as well on all the plans, in the case of apprehension of the levels ethologic at the babies as in that of the function existentialisante of the rock'n'roll for the young people or even in that of the pathic apprehension in the psychosis, where can be included the most various components semiotics (incorporation of science or the media like elements of the modern family romance, for example). For that it should be accepted that the Psyché is the result of multiple components, heterogeneous. It wraps the register of the word but also the means of communication nonverbal, the relations with architectonic space, the behaviors ethologic, the statutes economic, the aspirations esthetic and ethical, etc What implies that one cannot take the Subjectivité like data, configured by the universal structures of psyché, but, on the contrary, that it is necessary to suppose productions differentiated from subjectivations. This is why the Inconscient is not structural but processual; it cannot be referred with the only family romance but also owes the being with the technical and social machines; it cannot be entirely turned towards the past but also owes the being towards the future.

Thinker of the birthrate, of the beginnings, the radical search for Guattari of a capacity to give conceptual and pragmatic form to existential interrogations, to reinstate the complexity of the individuals, them Libido, their dreams, in the political equation, leads it to promote what it will name a “écosophie”.

The CERFI and the review Research

He was at the origin of Formation and Research, Studies the Center of Institutional ( CERFI , 1965-1987), whose review Recherches published tens of special issues, approaches amoralists of the work, school, Toxicomanie S, Féminisme S, Homosexualité S and known as “perversions”…

In the traditional line of criticism of the Social sciences and, in particular, history, the first contribution original of the CERFI relates to the critical Psychanalyse , its second distinctive mark being the “genealogical” approach of the history , centered around the phenomena of the “capacity”, that of which Nietzsche ( the Généalogie of morals ) or Foucault ( Histoire of the madness at the traditional age ) could establish the layout: with the difference in the other types of speech, those which produces the genealogical method aim at approaching the values about which they speak by the sides , of skew .

The institutional Analyze that the Center is given for task thus explores a vast field which goes from the history of the State (utility services, town planning, central administration) to the social history (of the Working class in the marginal mediums).

The critical faculty of people of the CERFI (among which one could count Anne Querrien, Numa Murard, François Fourquet, Liane Mozère…) could be exerted in a specific way in the following fields: psychiatric Nosologie , theory of the Pedagogy, knowledge of small the Childhood, Town planning like science or “ urbanology ”, and finally Economic scene.

The vocabulary of Guattari

micropolitic
semiotic Subjectivity
mechanical group-subject

Quotations

“It does not have there lack in the absence; the absence is a presence in me. ”

Works published in French

Psychoanalysis and transversality , Maspéro, Paris, 1972 (republication the Discovery, Paris, 2003)
the molecular revolution , Editions Research, Paris, 1977
unconscious mechanical the , Editions Research, Paris, 1979
years of winter: 1980-1985 , Bernard Barrault, Paris, 1985
schizoanalytic Cartographies , Galileo, Paris, 1989 (appendices on Broom, Witkiewicz, Balthus, etc)
three ecologies , Galileo, Paris 1989
Chaosmose , Galileo, Paris, 1992
Old story (S) , Editions of the Clothes pin, Paris, 2000
Old stories , integral version on Livropolis.com, Editions Lume
philosophy is essential with the human existence , discussion with Antoine Spire, the Paddle, Turn-of Acute, 2002
Written for the Anti-Oedipus , texts arranged by Stephan Nadaud, Lines/Proclamation, Paris, 2004

In collaboration with Gilles Deleuze

the Anti-Oedipus: capitalism and schizophrenia , Midnight, Paris, 1972
Kafka, for a minor literature , Midnight, Paris, 1975
Thousand Plates: capitalism and schizophrenia , Midnight, Paris, 1980
What philosophy? Midnight, Paris, 1991

In collaboration with Toni Negri

new spaces of freedom , Dominique Bedou, Paris, 1985.

With Jean Oury and François Tosquelles

Practical of institutional and political the (talks), Matrix, Paris, 1985

In collaboration with Suely Rolnik

Micropolitiques , Hinderers to think in round, Paris, 2007 (to be appeared in April 2007)

Tests on Felix Guattari

Eric Combine, the Signature of the world, or What the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari , Cerf, 1993.
Manola Antonioli, Géophilosophie de Deleuze and Guattari , Paris, Harmattan, 2003.
Jean-Philippe Cazier, “Resonances”, Chimères, n°23, 1994.
Sande Cohen, “For a reading of the molecular revolution ”, Chimères , n°29, 1996
Pascale Criton, “Ars Anima, for a sensitivity of reality”, Dreams , n°25, 1995 (on Chaosmose )

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