Anti-Oedipus. Capitalism and Schizophrenia: Volume 1. A Thousand Plateaus. Capitalism and Schizophrenia: Volume 2

The set includes two books by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari:
«Anti-Oedipus» became a symbol of the total restructuring of psychoanalytic theory, a rethinking of the main Freudian concept—the Oedipus complex. Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari begin the deconstruction of Freudianism with a critique of the ideas of the «family triangle» as the main structure of the unconscious, for in such a capacity it becomes a tool of oppression. Moreover, «Oedipal» psychoanalysts, feeling supported by the police and sanitary authorities, are often themselves ready to subject people to repression—for refusing «Oedipalization». The authors show that beyond the pseudo-opposition of «family—society» lies the relation between unconscious desire and social production.
Schizophrenia is the external limit of the capitalist system, near which decoded flows of desire sweep everything in their path. Capitalism constantly strives for this limit—and constantly pushes it back. The schizo is both a hero and an enemy of capitalism, as he reveals its main secret.
«A Thousand Plateaus» is a project of a new «anti-repressive» world. Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari declare their rejection of the idea of a rigid («tree-like») structure based on binary oppositions, as well as from the idea of strict determinism. The global metaphor of modern society and modern thought is that of a tumbleweed or a nomad, which moves in unrestricted space, having neither starting point nor endpoint.
The rhizome embodies a structure where all elements are equal in their autonomy. Just as marginal («countercultural») groups of the second half of the 20th century, opposing themselves to the rest of society, challenge the repressive apparatus of civilization, the «nomadic» philosophy, «opened wide», counters the vertical hierarchy of the «tree», which, through the relation of «seed—fruit», constantly returns to itself and reproduces itself.