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Kafka, hypertext and assemblages

Franco Berardi

pp. 88-108

Abstract

In 1975, Deleuze and Guattari, working within the conceptual context of Anti-Oedipus, published a book entitled Kafka. Toward a Minor Literature. Kafka is placed under the shadow of Oedipus and comes to be projected into a scenario that goes far beyond the psychoanalytic horizon. "An Exaggerated Oedipus' is the title of the second chapter, but Oedipus is not the key for interpreting the Kafka text: on the contrary, Oedipus is described as a libidinal machine, an investment of neuroses.

Publication details

Published in:

Berardi Franco, Mecchia Giuseppina, Stivale Charles J (2008) Félix Guattari: thought, friendship and visionary cartography. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.

Pages: 88-108

DOI: 10.1057/9780230584488_9

Full citation:

Berardi Franco (2008) Kafka, hypertext and assemblages, In: Félix Guattari, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 88–108.