About Félix Guattari
Pierre-Félix Guattari ( gwə-TAR-ee; French: [pjɛʁ feliks ɡwataʁi]; 30 March 1930 – 29 August 1992) was a French psychoanalyst, political philosopher, semiotician, social activist, and screenwriter. He co-founded schizoanalysis with Gilles Deleuze, and created ecosophy independently of Arne Næss. He has become best known for his literary and philosophical collaborations with Deleuze, most notably Anti-Oedipus (1972) and A Thousand Plateaus (1980), the two volumes of their theoretical work Capitalism and Schizophrenia. == Biography == === Clinic of La Borde === Guattari was born in Villeneuve-les-Sablons, a working-class suburb of northwest Paris, France. He engaged in Trotskyist political activism as a teenager, before serving as French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan's apprentice and analysand in the early 1950s. Subsequently, he worked at the experimental psychiatric clinic of La Borde (in the town of Cour-Cheverny) under the direction of Lacan's pupil Jean Oury. He first met Oury at a private psychiatric clinic in Saumery in the Loire Valley at the suggestion of Oury's brother Fernand, who had been Guattari's high school teacher. Guattari followed Oury to La Borde in 1955, two years after it had been established. At the time, La Borde was a venue for conversation among students of philosophy, psychology, ethnology, and social work. One particularly novel orientation developed at La Borde consisted of the suspension of the classical analyst/analysand pair in favour of an open confrontation in group therapy.
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