Anti-Oedipus and Schizoanalysis
On the wilder shores of postmodernism we find Gilles Deleuze (1925–95) and Felix Guattari (1930–92), whose Anti-Ödipus (1972) is an attack on the concept of authority in general and the allegedly authoritarian theories of Marxism and Freudianism in particular. Psychoanalysis for them is a repressive system which forces individuals to conform to restrictive social norms of behaviour. Deleuze and Guattari put their faith instead in “schizoanalysis”.