Origins & Early Life

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. Guattari was born in Villeneuve-les-Sablons, a working-class suburb of northwest Paris, France.

Pivotal Works & Achievements

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...

Enduring Legacy & Impact

The historical impact and works continue to influence the modern world.

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