1974. About Anti-Oedipus

The 1972 publication of Anti-Oedipus, Capitalism and Schizophrenia, by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, marks the unexplained distancing between psychoanalysis and the philosophical critiques of the “Oedipus complex”, considered as a myth forged by Freud. Reading three of the positions on “Oedipus” which have emerged following this publication – that of Jacques Lacan, Michel Foucault and Wladimir Granoff – this paper aims to assess today’s relevance of a debate which, fourty years ago, failed to happen.