Félix Guattari

Guattari's best-known collaborator was philosopher Gilles Deleuze. Together they wrote Anti-Oedipus in 1972 and A Thousand Plateaus in 1980, the two volumes of Capitalism and Schizophrenia.

Schizoanalysis is a method Guattari developed with Deleuze to examine how desire, institutions, capitalism, and social forces shape subjectivity. It challenges the idea that desire can be explained only through the family-centered framework of classical psychoanalysis.

Yes. Guattari was a French psychoanalyst and political thinker whose clinical and institutional work influenced his philosophical writing. His partnership with Deleuze brought psychoanalysis into direct contact with politics, economics, and social theory.

Many readers begin with Anti-Oedipus from 1972 because it introduces the shared project of Capitalism and Schizophrenia. A Thousand Plateaus, published in 1980, develops the project through concepts such as rhizomes, deterritorialization, and assemblages.