Deleuze and Guattari were two of the hippest Cop-Killers of all time! Anti-Oedipus is, behind all their Post-Marixst jargon, but an Anti-Swine Bible. Foucault introduced the text as "... an introduction to the nonfascist life." We don't know what that means, but we're pretty sure it has something to do with a Becoming-pig sqaunderer.
Our favorite part is when D&G blur the line between psychoanalysis and policemen:
"As to those who refuse to be oedipalized in one form or another, at one end or the other in the treatment , the psychoanalyst is there to call the asylum or the police for help. The police on our side ! - never did psychoanalysis better display its taste for supporting the movement of social repression, and for participating in it with enthusiasm....And if getting well amounts to getting oedipalized, we can easily understand the outbursts of the patient who "does not want to be cured," and who treats the analyst as one of the family, as an ally of the police"*
1972) L'Anti-Oedipe (Paris: Minuit); tr. as Anti-Oedipus, by Robert Hurley, Mark Seem and Helen R. Lane (NY: Viking, 1977; reprint U Minnesota Press, 1983.
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