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Deleuze and Guattari Continuum Studies in Continental Philosophy Series Editor: James Fieser, University of Tennessee at Martin, USA Continuum Studies in Continental Philosophy is a major monograph series from Continuum. The series features fi rst-class scholarly research monographs across the fi eld of Continental philosophy. Each work makes a major contribution to the fi eld of philosophical research. 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Storm Heter Sartre’s Phenomenology, David Reisman Who’s Afraid of Deleuze and Guattari? Gregg Lambert Deleuze and Guattari A Psychoanalytic Itinerary Fadi Abou-Rihan Continuum International Publishing Group The Tower Building 80 Maiden Lane 11 York Road Suite 704 London SE1 7NX New York NY 10038 www.continuumbooks.com © Fadi Abou-Rihan 2008 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage or retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN-10: HB: 1-8470-6371-3 ISBN-13: HB: 978-1-8470-6371-7 Library of Congress Cataloguing-in-Publication Data Abou-Rihan, Fadi. Deleuze and Guattari: a psychoanalytic itinerary/Fadi Abou-Rihan. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13: 978-1-84706-371-7 (HB: alk. paper) ISBN-10: 1-84706-371-3 (HB: alk. paper) 1. Deleuze, Gilles, 1925–1995. 2. Guattari, Félix, 1930–1992. 3. Psychoanalysis. 4. Deleuze, Gilles, 1925–1995. Anti- Œdipe. I. Title. B2430. D454A26 2008 194--dc22 2008013535 Typeset by Newgen Imaging Systems Pvt Ltd, Chennai, India Printed and bound in Great Britain by Biddles Ltd, King’s Lynn, Norfolk For their gift of presence, I dedicate this book to Antonio Calcagno, Kathy Daymond, Margaret Huntley, François Lachance and Jeannelle Savona. This page intentionally left blank Contents Preface ix Acknowlegements xi 1. Nietzsche: by way of an introduction 1 2. Winnicott: the psychoanalytic family 15 3. Anti-Oedipus : reading, listening, analysing 32 4. Process notes: productions and syntheses 49 5. Sophocles: under the sign of Nemesis 79 6. Cixous: the unseen seen 100 7. Désirand: the transitional subject 118 Notes 136 Bibliography 147 Index 155 This page intentionally left blank Preface Most commentators have situated Deleuze and Guattari’s Anti-Oedipus along two principal hermeneutic axes, the one historico-political, as an ethic grounded in the events of May 1968, and the other textual, as a Nietzschean reordering of Marx and Freud, ostensibly uncomfortable to both Marxists and Freudians. Very few indeed have seen fi t to locate the text, and posi- tively so, within a specifi cally psychoanalytic tradition. After all, the advocates of schizoanalysis consider the text a Medusa into whose face psychoanalysis cannot but stare and subsequently suffer the most abominable of deaths. And, to believe the few within the clinical circles that have actually both- ered to read it, one would think Anti-Oedipus is, at best, a well-intentioned but thoroughly misguided fl ash in the pan. Both of these responses suffer from (1) a reading strategy that treats psychoanalysis and schizoanalysis as opposing paradigms caught up in a dispute over the so-called truth of the unconscious, and hence (2) an exclusive focus on the ways in which either paradigm can trap, conquer and/or discredit the other. While I do not wish to underestimate the critical legacy with which Anti-Oedipus has been rightly credited, I want to insist on a no less signifi cant but much less manifest pro- ductive, psychoanalytic legacy that needs to be unravelled. To ignore that legacy is to wrest the text from its theoretical and practical matrix and reify its authors’ richly ambivalent position. My plan in the following pages is to reorganize the various components of the debate and show how, in underscoring the truly productive core of desire, Deleuze and Guattari remain fully committed to Freud’s most singu- lar discovery of an unconscious that is procedural and dynamic. I will show how Anti-Oedipus is not only a harsh and most insightful critique of the assimilationist vein in psychoanalysis, but that it is also, and more p rofoundly, a practice where the science of the unconscious is made to obey the laws it attributes to its object. The outcome here is nothing short of the ‘becom- ing-unconscious’ of psychoanalysis, a becoming that signals neither the repression nor the death of the practice but the transformation of its prin- ciples and procedures into those of its object. Psychoanalysis is no longer the subject that speaks of the unconscious; it is subject to it. Ostensibly, Deleuze and Guattari’s anti-oedipal project is ‘anti-’ insofar as it ushers in a much needed moment of refl exivity where psychoanalytic theory and

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Most commentators judge Deleuze and Guattari's Anti-Oedipus as either a Medusa into whose face psychoanalysis cannot but stare and suffer the most abominable of deaths or a well-intentioned but thoroughly misguided flash in the pan. Fadi Abou-Rihan shows that, as much as it is an insightful critique
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