What it is schizoanalysis In this article by Katia Vanessa Silvestri, you will understand the relationship between psychology, politics and schizoanalysis, starting from Deleuze and Guattari's concept of schizoanalysis .

Schizoanalysis: a critical perspective on Freudian Psychoanalysis

"A child does not just play daddy and mommy" (Deleuze and Guattari).

Freudian Psychoanalysis is reinvented by Freud himself throughout his experiences, studies and research. There are, however, two pillars that remain: the child sexuality and the unconscious .

It is on the very pillar of Psychoanalysis that Schizoanalysis makes a critique and presents a different proposal.

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Ideas of Deleuze and Guattari

It is with the enthusiasm of always oxygenated ideas and the very psychoanalytic defense that one must be intrigued with you to be intrigued with Psychoanalysis that this text is justified.

In the works Anti-Oedipus , One Thousand Plateaus e Five propositions about Psychoanalysis , are the main lines of Schizoanalysis, whose goal is not to solve the problems of Freudian Psychoanalysis, but to eliminate Freudian psychoanalytic discourse.

Thus, three points are crucial in this endeavor:

• the way to be neurotic ,
• o capitalism and the
• complex of Oedipus .

The Unconscious and Schizoanalysis

In a syllogism, say Deleuze and Guattari:

" the family is structured by capitalism In this sense, if there is a dynamic of the psychism, the most primordial in us is acquired and structured by the social, capitalism".

Freud already said of the primary process and that the topics are like a useful fiction since unconscious, preconscious and conscious (ICs, PCs, and Cs) cannot be thought of as separate, distinct places.

However, the criticism of Schizoanalysis is that even the unconscious is a machine produced by social-capitalist relations Behold, in the place of an unconscious that is lack, Deleuze and Guattari propose an unconscious power plant, a power plant of desires.

The Oedipus complex in the schizoanalytic perpsective

In line with this reasoning, the capitalism as that which prevents, limits, controls, and seeks to order desires in favor of its interests performs the function of repress all free desire not because the Oedipus complex is incestuous and aggressive, but because every desire is a danger to the maintenance of capitalism.

More precisely, it is capitalism that imprisons desire.

What we read is the deconstruction of family logic, of the Oedipal triangle (father, mother, child), for a defense of capitalist society as the initial movement of Oedipal constitution.

In effect, what capitalism does is to repress desires from childhood and to engineer the neurotic subject. neurotic is the unfortunate because unable to create, because frightened, ashamed.

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What does Schizoanalysis mean? What is its role?

Deneurotizing individuals is one of the tasks that Schizoanalysis proposes.

In this context, the figure of the schizophrenic reveals itself; this is the individual who refuses to be neurotic In other words, it refuses the neurotic model of being.

In general terms, one can say that the neurotic wants to be loved, all the time he needs - given the perspective of the unconscious as the desire of lack - that love for him be proved and, in this suffering, Freudian Psychoanalysis "teaches" that one can suffer in other ways.

The schizoanalytic critique is: why be the individual of lack and not the individual creator of desires who, instead of interpreting, experiences, puts himself in a movement of experimentation? In other words, instead of feeling desire as lack, create relationships and new affections; live desire beyond interpretation.

The proposal of schizoanalytic theory

Through new social relations the whole machinery can be reinvented, that is, bring neurotic relations to an end through power-intensity relations, which requires live the desire .

Note that the existence of the Oedipus complex is not denied, but the desire to stop manufacturing it is, and to do so, the schizophrenic process of desire must be resumed.

Deleuze and Guattari state that the way to repress desires is not universal, and that in Western society the way is oedipalizing individuals. Yet another criticism reveals itself, Oedipus is not universal It is a universal structure, as Freud wanted, but a specific production of the unconscious.

Desire and instinct in Deleuze and Guattari's Schizoanalysis

And, in a dialogue with Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari say that Oedipus produces docile bodies, servitude. Instincts are not dangerous as the neurotic believes.

Desire is interpreted as dangerous because defies the given order Even if small, desire is always liberating.

It is in this sense that Guattari says in The three ecologies (2006) that mental ecology is about not allowing another machinery (capitalism) to take charge of the movement of desire.

"It is pitiful to have to say such crude things: desire does not threaten society because it is the desire to have sex with the mother, but because it is revolutionary" (Deleuze and Guattari, Anti-Oedipus, p. 158).

When we read in Freud that all repressed must remain unconscious and, remembering that the repression is not a synonym for resentment ,

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• repression is conscious
• while recalque is unconscious

The way out offered by Freudian Psychoanalysis is become neurotic and, neurosis, is neither universal nor individual, after all, who knows more about Oedipus, the child or the parents themselves? Therefore all delirium is collective, Deleuze and Guattari state. All the barriers created against desire, against pleasures, set up a reverse mechanism, turning against the individual himself.

Differences between Psychoanalysis and Schizoanalysis

This is why the French philosophers say that Psychoanalysis is not an alternative. Schizoanalysis aims to collapse the childhood matrix of psychoanalysis and the unconscious as the tops of desires repressed because they are shameful, unbearable, terrible.

A defense of desire as power and creation is opposed to the Platonic intelligible world who still breathes our air defending a beautiful and good and a Truth itself.

The ghosts of a perfect world beyond the immanent world To free the unconscious from the Oedipus complex, from interpretation and grammatical rules, to argue that desires can never be too much is the alternative according to Deleuze and Guattari.

The normal way of being, as Freud says, the normal man learns to wait and accommodate, is for Schizoanalysis the unfortunate way of being, it is the Oedipus Empire and socially imposed castration .

Desire interpreted as evil and lack is not a Freudian invention, it has been in human history since Plato and is maintained, given the historical differences, precisely because it is the most effective form of domination and oppression.

In terms of Freudian second topic, the Ego is, according to the critique presented here, a servant of capitalism, whose essence is to "trick", to deceive desire by reducing it, interpreting it, and even castrating it in the name of a social experience that, in reality, is the capitalist form of social relation.

Hence the motivating question brought about by Schizoanalysis: when or how was/is Psychoanalysis reactionary? This question is answered in different ways, with different theories and methods.

This text about what is schizoanalysis and what are Deleuze and Guattari's divergences from Freudian psychoanalysis was written exclusively for the blog of the Training Course in Clinical Psychoanalysis by Katia Vanessa Tarantini Silvestri ([email protected]), Psychoanalyst, Philosopher and Psycho-pedagogue. Master's and Ph.D. in Linguistics. Lecturer in higher education and MBA post-graduation.