ABSTRACT.
In this article, we analyze the criticisms that Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari address to lacanism in “The Anti-Oedipus”. We analyze the theoretical and conceptual peculiarities of this conflict based on a methodological path composed of two interconnected procedures. The first one consists in identifying the authors, works and contents targeted by Deleuze and Guattari. This action has a propaedeutic character, since it allows delimiting the thematic fields from which the anti-Oedipus machinations are connected with some versions of Lacan’s teaching. In the second procedure, linked to the previous one, we evaluate these themes in consonance with the argumentative contexts in which they are covered. We show how the clashes developed at the frontiers between psychoanalysis, linguistics and anthropology are articulated to the deleuze-guattarian gesture that rehabilitates the function of the Real in the analytic, desire and production ambits. To this aim, we investigated some books written at a time still strongly influenced by the structuralist program. We found that these works are criticized in The Anti-Oedipus for reducing the unconscious to the structural-symbolic dimension.
Keywords:
Psychoanalysis; structuralism; schizoanalysis