French political activist, psychoanalyst, and philosopher. In his most important book, he criticized capitalist theories and designs that hinder revolutionary movements by creating fascist forms of subjectivity through the suppression of desire.
He is a French psychotherapist and philosopher who focuses actively on the issues of psychotherapy and politics in his thoughts and is especially known for his joint works with Gilles Deleuze.
He was born on April 30, 1930, in Villeneuve-les-Sablons, Oise, France, and died on August 29, 1992, in La Borde clinic, Cour-Cheverny, France.
Guattari's philosophical studies carried out independently of Deleuze are almost negligible in number, and they cannot be said to have a significant contribution to philosophy in addition to the original thoughts he gave together with Deleuze. For this reason, it is possible to evaluate almost all of Guattari's important thoughts as thoughts put forward as a result of his productive collaboration with Deleuze.
Pierre-Félix Guattari (30 March 1930 – 29 August 1992) was a French psychoanalyst, political philosopher, semiotician, social activist, and screenwriter. He co-founded schizoanalysis with Gilles Deleuze, and ecosophy with Arne Næss, and is best known for his literary and philosophical collaborations with Deleuze, most notably Anti-Oedipus (1972) and A Thousand Plateaus (1980), the two volumes of their theoretical work Capitalism and Schizophrenia.
It is useful to remember here that every thought referred to as Guattari's own thoughts is Deleuze's at least as much as he is. Deleuze and Guattari have experienced post-modern thought adventures together in order to create new forms of thinking, writing, subjectivity, and politics.
From the perspective of philosophy, Deleuze and Guattari have given extremely valuable ideas in terms of paving the way for the position of philosophy called "philosophy of everyday life" as opposed to traditional philosophy. Their most popular book, Anti-Oedipe, published in 1972, is a provocative critique of the dominant discourses of modernity and capitalist theories and designs that hinder revolutionary movements by creating fascist forms of subjectivity through the suppression of desire.
Against this established capitalist situation, Deleuze and Guattari advocate a post-modern way of existence in which individuals will be positioned as “desiring nomads” who can overcome oppressive modern identities.