Deleuze's Literary Clinic: Criticism and the Politics of Symptoms

by Aidan Tynan

Overview

The first study of Deleuze's critical and clinical project. Aidan Tynan addresses Deleuze's assertion that 'literature is an enterprise of health' and shows how a concern of health and illness was a characteristic of his philosophy as a whole, from his earliest works to his groundbreaking collaborations with Guattari, to his final, enigmatic statements on 'life'.He explains why alcoholism, anorexia, manic depression and schizophrenia are key concepts in Deleuze's literary theory, and shows how, with the turn to schizoanalysis, literature takes on a crucial political and ethical role in helping us to diagnose our present pathologies and articulate the possibilities of a health to come.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780748650552
Publisher:	Edinburgh University Press
Publication date:	05/15/2012
Series:	Plateaus - New Directions in Deleuze Studies
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.90(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Aidan Tynan Senior Lecturer in English literature at Cardiff University. He is the author of Deleuze’s Literary Clinic: Criticism and the Politics of Symptoms (Edinburgh, 2012). He had co-edited two volumes: Credo Credit Crisis: Speculations on Faith and Money (Rowman & Littlefield, 2017) and Deleuze and the Schizoanalysis of Literature (Bloomsbury, 2015).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction: From Symptomatology to Schizoanalysis; Chapter 1: A Case of Thought; Chapter 2: The Paradox of the Body and the Genesis of Form and Content; Chapter 3: Symptoms, Repetition and the Productive Death Instinct; Chapter 4: The Identity of the Critical and the Clinical; Chapter 5: The People to Come; Conclusion; Bibliography

What People are Saying About This

James Williams

How should we think about health after Deleuze and Guattari? What kind of symptomatology and idea of the clinical do they affirm? Why is literature at the heart of these questions? With exceptional clarity and sensitivity, Aidan Tynan gives us subtle and much needed answers. His investigation points to a new and liberating critical practice.

Editorial Reviews

How should we think about health after Deleuze and Guattari? What kind of symptomatology and idea of the clinical do they affirm? Why is literature at the heart of these questions? With exceptional clarity and sensitivity, Aidan Tynan gives us subtle and much needed answers. His investigation points to a new and liberating critical practice.

James Williams