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An "introduction to the nonfascist life" (Michel Foucault, from the Preface) When it first appeared in France, Anti-Oedipus was hailed as a masterpiece by some and "a work of heretical madness" by others. In it, Gilles Deleuze and F?lix Guattari set forth the following theory: Western society's innate herd instinct has allowed the government, the media, and even the principles of economics to take advantage of each person's unwillingness to be cut off from the group. What's more, those who suffer from mental disorders may not be insane, but could be individuals in the purest sense, because they are by nature isolated from society. More than twenty-five years after its original publication, Anti-Oedipus still stands as a controversial contribution to a much-needed dialogue on the nature of free thinking. 1. The Desiring-machines -- Desiring-production -- The Body Without Organs -- The Subject And Enjoyment -- A Materialist Psychiatry -- The Machines -- The Whole And Its Parts -- 2. Psychoanalysis And Familialism: The Holy Family -- The Imperialism Of Oedipus -- Three Texts Of Freud -- The Connective Synthesis Of Production -- The Disjunctive Synthesis Of Recording -- The Conjunctive Synthesis Of Consumption-consummation -- A Recapitulation Of The Three Syntheses -- Social Repression And Psychic Repression -- Neurosis And Psychosis -- The Process 3. Savages, Barbarians, Civilized Men -- The Inscribing Socius -- The Primitive Territorial Machine -- The Problem Of Oedipus -- Psychoanalysis And Ethnology -- Territorial Representation -- The Barbarian Despotic Machine -- Barbarian Or Imperial Representation -- The Urstaat -- The Civilized Capitalist Machine -- Capitalist Representation -- Oedipus At Last -- 4. Introduction To Schizoanalysis -- The Social Field -- The Molecular Unconscious -- Psychoanalysis And Capitalism -- The First Positive Task Of Schizoanalysis -- The Second Positive Task. By Gilles Deleuze And Felix Guattari ; Translated From The French By Robert Hurley, Mark Seem, And Helen R. Lane ; Preface By Michel Foucault. Translation Of: L'anti-Œdipe. Reprint. Originally Published: New York : Viking Press, 1977. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. "A major work in the development of critical theory in the late 20th century, Anti-Oedipus is an essential text for feminists, literary theorists, social scientists, philosophers, and other interested in the problems of contemporary Western culture."-- Provided by publisher Analyzes the expression and repression of desire in Western culture and tells how to avoid fascism in one's life