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Félix Guattari
French psychoanalyst, philosopher, and activist (1930–1992) — Berardi's closest theoretical collaborator, co-author with Gilles Deleuze of the Capitalism and Schizophrenia project, and the thinker whose analysis of capitalism's production of subjectivity provided the foundation for semiocapitalism.
Félix Guattari was one of the most original thinkers of the second half of the twentieth century and the figure who most directly shaped Berardi's theoretical vocabulary. A practicing psychoanalyst at the experimental La Borde clinic for over forty years, Guattari is best known as co-author with Gilles Deleuze of Anti-Oedipus (1972) and A Thousand Plateaus (1980), the two volumes of Capitalism and Schizophrenia. His independent work extended across psychoanalysis, semiotics, political activism, ecology, and the analysis of what he called the production of subjectivity under capitalism — the specific way the economic system shapes not just what we do but who we become.
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Guattari's innovation, developed in collaboration with Deleuze and independently across multiple works, was to refuse the separation between the economic, the political, the psychological, and the semiotic. Capitalism, in his analysis, is not merely an economic system that happens to have psychological effects. It is a system