Guattari's Therapeutics: From Transference to Transversality

‘Transversality’ is a key term in the work of Félix Guattari. As conceptual and pragmatic motor for generation heterogeneity, it extends throughout all his work, including writing he undertook with Deleuze. It promotes rupture redistribution hierarchical structures, mobilisation operations deterritorialisation across social cultural field, gains ‘chaosmic’ dimension later writings. Its ‘origins’, however, are to be found Guattari's early at Clinique de la Borde militant Marxist movements 1950s 1960s. This an initial necessarily provisional effort embed concept therapeutic pragmatics thus counter debateable tendency towards dilution or diffusion transversality theoretical abstraction, where risks becoming synonym generalised sense creative differentiation.