bEssays and articles that trace Guattari's intellectual and political development before iAnti-Oedipusi. bpOriginally published in French in 1972, iPsychoanalysis and Transversalityi gathers all the articles that F lix Guattari wrote between 1955 and 1971. It provides a fascinating account of his intellectual and political itinerary before iAnti-Oedipus Capitalism and Schizophreniai 1972, the ground-breaking book he wrote with Gilles Deleuze, propelled him to the forefront of contemporary French philosophy. ppGuattari's background was unlike that of any of his peers. In 1953, with psychoanalyst Jean Oury, he founded the La Borde psychiatric clinic, which was based on the principle that one cannot treat psychotics without modifying the entire institutional context. For Guattari, the purpose of institutional psychotherapy was not just to cure psychotic patients, but also to learn with them a different relation to the world. A dissident in the French Communist Party and active in far-left