Meanings
nounschizoanalysis (countable and uncountable, plural schizoanalyses)
plural schizoanalyses
- countableuncountableA form of psychoanalysis addressing perceived shortcomings and oversimplifications in traditional psychoanalysis.
So what can schizoanalysis offer us as a way of responding to the event of film? How does it differ from psychoanalytic methods applied to cinema from the mid-1970s on?
2008, Ian Buchanan, Patricia MacCormack, editors, Deleuze and the Schizoanalysis of Cinema, A&C Black, →ISBN, page 118
Origin
From schizo- + analysis, introduced in 1972 by philosopher Gilles Deleuze and psychoanalyst Félix Guattari in their book Anti-Oedipus.
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