The first study of Deleuze's critical and clinical projectAidan 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
Introduction: from symptomatology to schizoanalysis -- 1. A case of thought -- 2. The paradox of the body and the genesis of form and content -- 3. Symptoms, repetition and the productive death instinct -- 4. The identity of the critical and the clinical -- 5. The people to come
