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Felix Guattari Quotes

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. The quotes below are attributed to Felix Guattari, organized by topic.

Felix Guattari on Love

  • Attributed to Felix Guattari:

    “There is no escape from desire; only a transformation of its arrangements.”

Felix Guattari on Mind

  • Attributed to Felix Guattari:

    “The unconscious is a factory, not a theater.”

  • Attributed to Felix Guattari:

    “Subjectivity is fabricated, not given.”

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Felix Guattari on Nature

  • Attributed to Felix Guattari:

    “There are three ecologies: of the environment, of social relations, and of human subjectivity.”

Felix Guattari on Truth

  • Attributed to Felix Guattari:

    “The map is open, connectable, reversible, susceptible to constant modification.”