Felix Guattari 1930 – 1992
Pierre-Felix Guattari was a French psychoanalyst, political activist, and philosopher and the long-time collaborator of Gilles Deleuze. After training as a psychoanalyst at the experimental La Borde clinic, he joined Deleuze in producing the two volumes of Capitalism and Schizophrenia, Anti-Oedipus and A Thousand Plateaus, that have become reference texts of late twentieth-century continental philosophy. His own writings, including Chaosmosis and The Three Ecologies, develop a philosophy of subjectivity, ecology, and political activism that anticipated many themes of later environmental thought.
Key facts
- Nationality
- French
- Era
- Contemporary
- Movements
- Post-Structuralism, Continental
Selected quotes
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Attributed to Felix Guattari:
“There is no escape from desire; only a transformation of its arrangements.”
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Attributed to Felix Guattari:
“The unconscious is a factory, not a theater.”
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Attributed to Felix Guattari:
“Subjectivity is fabricated, not given.”
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Attributed to Felix Guattari:
“There are three ecologies: of the environment, of social relations, and of human subjectivity.”
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Attributed to Felix Guattari:
“The map is open, connectable, reversible, susceptible to constant modification.”