Deleuze's Literary Clinic

Download or read book Deleuze's Literary Clinic written by Aidan Tynan and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-15 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.