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in the 1960's to became a central figure defining the events of May 1968 and its aftermath
Unlike Freud, Guattari believes that schizophrenia is an extreme mental state induced by the capitalist system itself. But capitalism keeps enforcing neurosis as a way of maintaining normality. Guattari's post-Marxist vision of capitalism provides a new definition not only of mental illness, but also of micropolitical means of subversion
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- Anti-Oedipus (1972)
- Kafka: Towards a Minor Literature
- A Thousand Plateaus (1980)
- What Is Philosophy? (1991)
- Chaosmosis (1992)
- Chaosophy (1995)
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Chimeres site on Guattari (in French) (http://www.revue-chimeres.org/guattari/guattari.html)
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