Félix Guattari
1930-1992 · Postmodernism · Prominent
Guattari was a French psychoanalyst and activist who spent his career at La Borde, an experimental clinic, and co-wrote Anti-Oedipus and A Thousand Plateaus with Deleuze. He broke with Lacan and the Freudian family drama and put schizoanalysis in its place. Desire gets produced the way a machine produces output, so the question is what yours hooks onto, never what it means underneath.
Signature
The position Guattari is most identified with in the Profiler:
- Order
- leans Horizontal
- Agency
- Radical Freedom
Positions on the 4 axes the sources answer
- Mind
- leans Beyond Brain (75 on a 0–100 scale from Brain Only to Beyond Brain)
- Order
- leans Horizontal (75 on a 0–100 scale from Vertical to Horizontal)
- Nature of Reality
- leans Multiplicity (75 on a 0–100 scale from Unity to Multiplicity)
- Nature
- leans Harmony (75 on a 0–100 scale from Mastery to Harmony)
16 of 20 axes are left blank: the sources do not answer them, or Guattari refused the framing. Nothing is imputed; a blank is not a middling score.
Foundational questions
- Theology
- Atheism
What is your position on the existence and nature of God or gods? - Government
- Anarchy
What is your ideal form of government? - Good and Evil
- Social Invention
What is the fundamental nature of good and evil? - Agency
- Radical Freedom
What is the nature of human agency and freedom? - Time
- Process / Becoming
What is the fundamental shape of time? - Economy
- Gift Economy
What is the ideal organization of economic life? - Human Nature
- Socially Constructed
What is human nature?