Assaulting Immanence: a reading of Anti-Oedipus

Abstract

This article provides a critical reading of Anti-Oedipus by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari from a materialist philosophical perspective. Javier Garrido Fernández examines the book’s central concepts, particularly that of «desiring-production» through which desire is no longer understood as lack but as a productive force constitutive of reality itself. The author analyses Deleuze and Guattari’s critique of Freudian psychoanalysis, arguing that it reduces the unconscious to the familial structure of the Oedipus complex and replaces the real productivity of desire with theatrical representation. In contrast, schizoanalysis is presented as an alternative approach that interprets the unconscious as a machinic and productive process. The article also explores the relationship between desire, social organisation, and capitalism, emphasizing the thesis that social production and desiring-production are inseparable dimensions of the same process. The work is ultimately assessed as a philosophical and political project aimed at reclaiming immanence against ideological and repressive forms of domination.