Félix Guattari
French psychoanalyst and co-founder of schizoanalysis with Gilles Deleuze.
Guattari died from a heart attack at La Borde on 29 August 1992.[1][2] Together with Gilles Deleuze, Guattari established schizoanalysis, and he also developed ecosophy on his own.[3]
Quick Facts
- Region
- Western philosophy
- Era
- 20th-century philosophy
- Birth name
- Pierre-Félix Guattari
- Born
- 30 March 1930
- Birthplace
- Villeneuve-les-Sablons, Oise, France
- Died
- 29 August 1992
- Place of death
- Cour-Cheverny, France
- Alma mater
- University of Paris
Facts from the source article.
Life and work
He served as Jacques Lacan's apprentice and analysand in the early 1950s before working at the experimental psychiatric clinic of La Borde under Jean Oury.[4] From 1955 to 1965 Guattari edited the Trotskyist newspaper La Voie Communiste and supported anti-colonialist struggles and Italian Autonomists.[5] His obituary notes that he was known to friends as "the happy psychotic" and that his life was a constant work in progress.[2] Guattari's birthplace was Villeneuve-les-Sablons, a working-class suburb northwest of Paris, and during his teenage years he participated in Trotskyist political activism.[4]
Two years after La Borde was founded, Guattari moved there in 1955 to work alongside Oury.[6] Guattari took part in the May 1968 French protests, and after those events he met Gilles Deleuze at the University of Vincennes.[7] For releasing a homosexuality-themed issue of Recherches in 1973, Guattari faced a trial and a fine, with the charge being an "outrage to public decency".[7]
What the cited sources add
The Independent obituary states that Guattari's mentor Jean Oury had known him since 1945, when Guattari was 15 and already militating for youth hostels.[2] Guattari joined the French Communist Party after World War II but was expelled for his pro-Chinese position.[2] He had been a member of the École freudienne de Paris since 1964, and Lacan was his analyst for seven years until Guattari became dissatisfied with the institution's bureaucracy.[2] The obituary reports that Guattari revealed the inhuman incarceration of the mad on the Greek island of Leros in a 1990 television documentary.[2]
Guattari met Deleuze in 1969, according to the obituary.[2] The obituary describes Guattari's playful absorption in art, cinema, popular culture, music, and literature as enriching his psychiatry practice.[2]
References
- Wikipedia, "Félix Guattari" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Entretien avec Félix Guattari à la télévision grecque " ("Felix Guattari interview on Greek television"), Revue Chimères, 4 February 2009 (in French); "Obituary: Felix Guattari" by James Kirkup, The Independent, 31 August 1992; "Felix Guattari, a Psychoanalyst And Is Dead at 62" by Alan Riding, The New York Times, 3 September 1992 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- "Obituary: Felix Guattari" by James Kirkup, The Independent, 31 August 1992. facts only, no text reused. independent.co.uk
- Wikipedia, "Félix Guattari" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Machinations deleuzo-guattariennes", Actuel Marx, October 2012, p. 108–120 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Félix Guattari" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Guattari (1989, ix).; Shatz, "Desire was everywhere. Review of François Dosse, 2010, "Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. Intersecting Lives". Columbia, translated by Deborah Glassman", London Review of Books, 2010 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Félix Guattari" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Guattari (1989, x). (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Félix Guattari" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Robcis, "Disalienation. Politics, Philosophy and Radical Psychiatry in Postwar France", University of Chicago Press, 2021, p. 75–77 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Félix Guattari" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Massumi, Brian, "A User's Guide to Capitalism and Schizophrenia: Deviations from Deleuze and Guattari", MIT Press, 1993, p. 144 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
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