Summer 2010 / Lacan Salon Reading Group

Deleuze & Guattari’s Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

Part I: THE DESIRING MACHINES

June 29th: An appetizer: Daniel W. Smith “The Inverse Side of Structure: Zizek on Deleuze and Lacan”; Desiring-Production, The Body Without Organs, the Subject and Enjoyment.

July 3rd: Territorial Representation, The Barbarian Despotic Machine, Barbarian or Imperial Representation, The Urstaat (39 pages)

July 6th: A Materialist Psychiatry, The Machines, The Whole and its Parts.

July 10th: The Civilized Capitalist Machine, Capitalist Representation, Oedipus at Last (50 pages).

Part II: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND FAMILIALISM: THE HOLY FAMILY

July 13th: The Imperialism of Oedipus, Three Texts of Freud, The Connective Synthesis of Production, The Disjunctive Synthesis of Recording, The Conjunctive Synthesis of Consumption-Consummation.

July 20th: Recapitulation of the three syntheses, Social Repression and Psychic Repression, Neurosis and Psychosis, The Process.

Part III: SAVAGES, BARBARIANS, CIVILIZED MEN

July 27th: The Inscribing Socius, The Primitive Territorial Machine, The Problem of Oedipus, Psychoanalysis and Ethnology (44 pages)

Part IV: INTRODUCTION TO SCHIZOANALYSIS

August 17th: The Social Field, The Molecular Unconscious, Psychoanalysis and Capitalism.

August 24th: The First Positive task of Schizoanalysis, The Second Positive Task.