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.
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Felix Guattari on Justice
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“We cannot live outside our bodies, our friends, some sort of human cluster, and at the same time, we are bursting out of this situation. The question which poses itself then is one of the conditions which allow the acceptance of the other, the acceptance of a subjective pluralism. It is a matter not only of tolerating another group, another ethnicity, another sex, but also of a desire for dissensus, otherness, difference. Accepting otherness is a question not so much of right as of desire. This acceptance is possible precisely on the condition of assuming the multiplicity within oneself.”
As cited from: The Guattari Reader , edited by Garry Genosko (1996)
Felix Guattari on Knowledge
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“As cited from: The Guattari Reader , edited by Garry Genosko (1996)”
We cannot live outside our bodies, our friends, some sort of human cluster, and at the same time, we are bursting out of this situation. The question which poses itself then is one of the conditions which allow the acceptance of the other, the acceptance of a subjective pluralism. It is a matter not only of tolerating another group, another ethnicity, another sex, but also of a desire for dissensu
Felix Guattari on Love
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Attributed to Felix Guattari:
“There is no escape from desire; only a transformation of its arrangements.”
Felix Guattari on Mind
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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.”
Felix Guattari on Nature
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Attributed to Felix Guattari:
“There are three ecologies: of the environment, of social relations, and of human subjectivity.”
Felix Guattari on Truth
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Attributed to Felix Guattari:
“The map is open, connectable, reversible, susceptible to constant modification.”