It is the first volume of Capitalism and Schizophrenia, the second being A Thousand Plateaus (1980).

to his The Antichrist. )‫تتمة‬Friedrich Nietzsche is also an influence; Anti-Oedipus has been seen as a sequel(
In considering Anti-Oedipus we should first discuss its performative effect, which attempts to “force us to
think,” that is, to fight against a tendency to cliché. Reading Anti-Oedipus can indeed be shocking
experience. First, we find a bizarre collection of sources; for example, the schizophrenic ranting of Antonin
Artaud provides one of the basic concepts of the work, the “body without organs.” Second is the book’s
vulgarity, as in the infamous opening lines about the unconscious (the Id): “It is at work everywhere,
functioning smoothly at times, at other times in fits and starts. It breathes, it heats, it eats. It shits and
fucks [Ça chie, ça baise]. What a mistake to have ever said the id” (7 / 1). A third performative effect is
humor, as in the mocking of Melanie Klein’s analysis of children: “Say it’s Oedipus, or I’ll slap you upside
the head [sinon t’auras un gifle]” (54 / 45; trans. modified). There are many more passages like this; it’s
safe to say very few philosophy books contain as many jokes, puns, and double entendres as Anti-Oedipus.
A fourth element is the gleeful coarseness of the polemics. Among many other examples, thinkers of the
signifier are associated with the lap dogs of tyrants, members of the French Communist Party are said to
have fascist libidinal investments, and Freud is described as a “masked Al Capone.” All in all, the
performative effect of reading Anti-Oedipus is unforgettable.
Schizophrenia: a long-term mental disorder of a type involving a breakdown in the relation between
thought, emotion, and behaviour, leading to faulty perception, inappropriate actions and feelings,
withdrawal from reality and personal relationships into fantasy and delusion, and a sense of mental
fragmentation.
Oedipus complex: (in Freudian theory) the complex of emotions aroused in a young child, typically around
the age of four, by an unconscious sexual desire for the parent of the opposite sex and wish to exclude the
parent of the same sex. (The term was originally applied to boys, the equivalent in girls being called the
Electra complex .).
the key term of Anti-Oedipus is “desiring-production”