Caosmosis felix guattari biography

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Pierre-Félix Guattari (March 30, 1930 – August 29, 1992) was a French psychotherapist, philosopher, semiologist, activist and screenwriter. He founded both schizoanalysis and ecosophy, and is best known for his intellectual collaborations with Gilles Deleuze, most notably Anti-Oedipus (1972) and A Thousand Plateaus (1980), the two volumes of Capitalism and Schizophrenia.

Biography

Clinic of La Borde

Guattari was born in Villeneuve-les-Sablons, a working-class suburb of north-west Paris, France. He trained under, and was analysed by, the psychoanalystJacques Lacan in the early 1950s. Subsequently, he worked at the experimental psychiatric clinic of La Borde under the direction of Lacan's pupil, the psychiatrist Jean Oury. One particularly novel orientation developed at La Borde consisted of the suspension of the classical master-patient, or analyst Chaosmosis: An Ethico-Aesthetic Paradigm by Félix Guattari ....