Biography
Félix Guattari (1930–1992) was a French psychoanalyst, philosopher and political activist. His intellectual career was closely linked to institutional psychotherapy and the La Borde clinic, where he worked alongside psychiatrist Jean Oury. Drawing on this experience, he examined the relationships between subjectivity, institutions, therapeutic practices and collective organisation.
In texts such as Psychanalyse et transversalité (1972), L’Inconscient machinique (1979), Les Trois Écologies (1989) and Chaosmose (1992), Guattari developed concepts linking the production of subjectivity with the social, political and environmental dimensions of experience. His reflections on transversality, institutional analysis, ecosophy and schizoanalysis expanded the boundaries of psychoanalytic and political debate.
His collaboration with Gilles Deleuze resulted in L’Anti-Œdipe (1972), Kafka. Pour une littérature mineure (1975), Mille plateaux (1980) and Qu’est-ce que la philosophie ? (1991). These works challenged reductive interpretations of desire and proposed new tools for analysing capitalism, systems of signs and collective forms of life.
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