Knowra Félix Guattari Félix Guattari Félix Guattari (1930–1992) was a French psychoanalyst, philosopher, and political activist whose collaborative work with Gilles Deleuze reshaped discussions of desire, politics, and subjectivity.
Gilles Deleuze : French philosopher whose collaborations with Guattari produced influential works on desire, politics, and multiplicity. Their partnership joined Guattari’s clinical and political experience to Deleuze’s philosophical projects.
Institutional psychotherapy : A psychiatric approach that treats institutional relationships and organization as part of treatment. It supplied the clinical framework Guattari helped develop at La Borde.
Schizoanalysis : A method developed by Deleuze and Guattari for analyzing desire’s social and political investments beyond familial explanations. It names Guattari’s alternative to psychoanalysis centered on the Oedipus complex.
Anti-Oedipus : A 1972 book by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari that critiques psychoanalysis and links desire to social production. This collaboration made Guattari’s critique of Oedipal explanations widely known.
Rhizome : A model of nonhierarchical connection developed by Deleuze and Guattari in contrast to tree-like structures. The rhizome became one of their most influential images for thought and organization.
Jean Oury : French psychiatrist who founded La Borde clinic and developed institutional psychotherapy. Oury and Guattari worked together at La Borde, where institutional psychotherapy shaped Guattari’s practice.
Psychoanalysis : A theory and clinical practice centered on unconscious processes, desire, and mental conflict. Guattari’s early work emerged from psychoanalysis, even as he later criticized its limits.
Desiring-production : The process through which desire produces connections, practices, and social arrangements. Guattari and Deleuze treat desire as productive activity rather than lack.
A Thousand Plateaus : A 1980 book by Deleuze and Guattari organized as interconnected explorations of concepts, practices, and history. Its collaborative method extends themes developed in Guattari’s earlier work.
Ecosophy : A philosophical approach linking ecological relations with social organization and human ways of life. Guattari’s three ecologies helped shape ecosophical approaches to interconnected crises.
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