Saturday, December 12, 2009

Kates Playground Brainstorm

The meeting that changed the philosophy



By Francois Dosse

The work of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's still an enigma. Who wrote it? Does one or the other? Does one or the other? How could deploy a common intellectual construction from 1969 to 1991, more than two such different sensibilities and two styles as opposed? How could they be so close without ever renouncing a distance expressed in reciprocal treatment from you? How to draw this unique adventure by driving force and its ability to rise to a sort of "third man", the fruit of the union of two authors? It seems difficult to follow what's written for each one. Evoking a hypothetical "third man" would hurry, no doubt, in so far as along the common adventure either were able to preserve their identity and unique tour.

In 1968, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari live in two different galaxies. Nothing predestined the meeting of these two worlds. On the one hand, a renowned philosopher, who has already published much of his work, and on the other, a militant who is in the field of psychoanalysis and social sciences, director of a psychiatric clinic and author of some articles. [...] The explosion of May 1968 was a moment so intense that it allowed most unlikely encounters. But more prosaically, there was first, at the beginning of this meeting, an intermediary [...]: Dr. Jean-Pierre Muyard, a physician at La Borde, realizes that the personal dedication that he wrote Felix Guattari the first work, of Anti-Oedipus: "Jean-Pierre, the real culprit, the inductor, the initiator of this company pernicious."

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