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Notes

Anti-Oedipusis "Capitalism and Schizophrenia Vol. 1" while A Thousand Plateus is Vol. 2.

The context for Anti-Oedipusis that, with May 1968in the background, the credibility of psychoanalysishad been undermined in France (the psychoanalysts who observed it believed that the leftists participating merely wanted more repression). The goal was to rid psychoanalysis of the Oedipal structure, as well as do away with psychoanalysis itself.

The basis of the critique is opposition to the Oedipal structureas defining all desire

Calling psychoanalysis"the handmaiden of capital#34; is a bit of an overstatement, as Freudspent much of his life simply trying to get by.

For Deleuzeand Guattari desireappears to be tied to the question of production, though the hosts believe that this is a bad reading. The hosts believe that desire is entirely about lack.

Deleuzeand Guattaripopularized the idea of the rhizome the idea that thought moves in a non-hierarchical manner and in many different directions. The hosts argue that this was an anticipation of the next development of capitalism, i.e. neoliberalism

What's unique about fascismis that it allows for both transgression and the ability to follow authoritatively.

Orwell misunderstood that the problem in 1984 is not Big Brother but Little Brother.