The Anti-Oedipus Complex

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"Oedipus is dead and we have killed him. From Freud's dreamwork to Krautrock and Kraftwerk, Rob Weatherill unfolds the consequences of our post 60s anti-Oedipal impulses, our excess of hate over love and our very indifference to that state. With fearless intellect it poses the question: is it possible to live and thrive outside the Oedipal frame altogether? This is a passionate apologetic for psychoanalysis over therapy, a sophisticated cultural and critical history of the Left, a damning indictment of the market driven imperative to enjoy at any expense, and a curiously theological work. Brimming with insight, wit and a depth of learning, our masters may be dead, but Weatherill shows himself to be every bit the master in a world without a compass."-Dr Marcus Pound, Senior Lecturer in Catholic Studies, Dept. Theology & Religion, Durham University.

"This is an impassioned and compelling work which reads key psychoanalytic and philosophical texts to offer an against-the-grain analysis of contemporary culture - of value to scholars, clinicians and sophisticated students interested in the continuing legacies of Jaques Lacan, Gilles Deleuze, and Felix Guattari among others."-Dr Julie Walsh, University of Warwick, author of Narcissism and Its Discontents (Palgrave, 2015). "Oedipus is dead and we have killed him. From Freud's dreamwork to Krautrock and Kraftwerk, Rob Weatherill unfolds the consequences of our post 60s anti-Oedipal impulses, our excess of hate over love and our very indifference to that state. With fearless intellect it poses the question: is it possible to live and thrive outside the Oedipal frame altogether? This is a passionate apologetic for psychoanalysis over therapy, a sophisticated cultural and critical history of the Left, a damning indictment of the market driven imperative to enjoy at any expense, and a curiously theological work. Brimming with insight, wit and a depth of learning, our masters may be dead, but Weatherill shows himself to be every bit the master in a world without a compass."-Dr Marcus Pound, Senior Lecturer in Catholic Studies, Dept. Theology & Religion, Durham University.

"This is an impassioned and compelling work which reads key psychoanalytic and philosophical texts to offer an against-the-grain analysis of contemporary culture - of value to scholars, clinicians and sophisticated students interested in the continuing legacies of Jaques Lacan, Gilles Deleuze, and Felix Guattari among others."-Dr Julie Walsh, University of Warwick, author of Narcissism and Its Discontents (Palgrave, 2015).

"The Anti-Oedipus Complex, his extraordinary new work, diagnoses a western culture blighted with anomie and desolation, and asks if anything can halt "the final seemingly unstoppable victory of the inhuman." -Rob Doyle, The Irish Times