Schizoanalysis and Ecosophy

This volume presents the concepts of schizoanalysis and ecosophy as Felix Guattari and Gilles Deleuze understood them, in interviews and analyses by their contemporaries and followers.
This accessible yet authoritative introduction is written by distinguished specialists, combining testimonies from some of Guattari's colleagues at the La Borde psychiatric clinic where he practiced, with expository essays on his main ideas, schizoanalysis and ecosophy, as well as his relations with Lacan. The last section of the book deals with the subsequent creative application of those ideas by his philosophical and psychoanalytic followers situated within the contemporary moment. This collection also provides the crucial historical context of France at the time Guattari was developing his concepts, including the role of the Maoists and the significance of the political situation in Algeria.

Constantin V. Boundas is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, a member of the Centre for the Study of Theory, History and Culture and an Adjunct Professor of Cultural Studies at Trent University, Canada. He is the editor of The Deleuze Reader (1993) and Deleuze and Philosophy (2006). His translations include Gilles Deleuze's The Logic of Sense (1990), Gilles Deleuze's Empiricism and Subjectivity (1991). He is also the editor of The Companion to the Twentieth Century Philosophies (2007).

Introduction, Constantin V. Boundas, Trent University, Canada
Part I
1. Anne Querrien, An Interview with Constantin V. Boundas
2. 'A Personal Testimony' Elizabeth Kouki, psychoanalyst at La Borde clinic 1976-1982
3. 'What is Schizoanalysis?' Jean Claude Polack, former psychiatrist and psychoanalyst at La Borde clinic, France
4. What is Ecosophy?' Manola Antonioli, École Supérieure d' Art et de Design de Valenciennes, France
5. 'Schizoanalysis and Ecosophy: Scales of History and Action' Anne Querrien and Andrew Goffey, (translated by Andrew Goffey), University of Nottingham, UK
6. 'Heterogenesis, Ecosophy and Dissent' Jean-Sebastien Laberge,University of Ottawa, Canada
7. '"Degrees of Freedom": Felix Guattari's Schizoanalytic Cartographies', Hanjo Berressem, University of Cologne, Germany
8. 'The Desiring Machines do not die: Impersonal Death and Feeling of Eternity' Oleg Lebedev, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
9. 'Beyond the Lacanian Phallo-arborocentrism: the Phallus as a Rhizome and the Object a as a Desiring-machine', Charis Raptis, University of Athens, Greece
Part II
10. 'For an Ecosophical Theater', Flore Garcin-Marrou, Lecturer in Theater and Visual Studies in the University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès, France
11. 'The Transversality of the Oasis Skateboard Factory Alternative School', Gary Genosko, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada
12. 'The Production of an Anxiety Dream Space Machine', Eric Harper, psychotherapist, social worker and human rights activist, and Charity N. Mwaniki is the resident artist at NUMBI Arts, UK
13. 'The Relationship inside the Psychiatric Institution between the Clinic and the Politics of Emancipation according to Felix Guattari: The Experience of 18Up', Katerina Matsa, psychiatrist at the Health Network for Social Solidarity, Greece
14. 'Double Bind: On Material Ethics', Andrej Radman, TU Delft, The Netherlands
Bibliography
Index