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I, Little Asylum
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I, Little Asylum

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Founded in 1951 and renowned in the world of psychiatry, the experimental psychiatric clinic of La Borde sought to break with the traditional internment of the mentally ill and to have them participate in the material organization of collective life. The clinic owed much of its approach to psychoanalyst and philosopher Felix Guattari, who was its codirector with Jean Oury until 1992.

In this lyrical chronicle of a childhood at La Borde, Felix Guattari’s daughter Emanuelle Guattari offers a series of impressionistic vignettes drawn from her own experiences. As a child whose parents worked in the clinic, Emanuelle Guattari ( Manou ) experienced La Borde - which is housed in a castle in the middle of a spacious park - as a place not of confinement but of imagination and play.

She evokes a landscape that is surreal but also mundane, describing the fat monkey named Boubou her father kept at the clinic, interactions between the  La Borde kids  and the  Residents (aka, the Insane, feared by the locals), the ever fascinating rainbow-hued  shit pit  on the grounds, and prank-calls to the clinic switchboard. And, of course, there is Felix Guattari himself, at the dinner table, battling a rat, and in his daughter’s dreams.

Emmanuelle Guattari’s tale of childlike wonder offers a poetic counterpoint to the writings of her father and his intellectual circle.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Autonomedia
Country
United States
Date
10 October 2014
Pages
88
ISBN
9781584351375

Founded in 1951 and renowned in the world of psychiatry, the experimental psychiatric clinic of La Borde sought to break with the traditional internment of the mentally ill and to have them participate in the material organization of collective life. The clinic owed much of its approach to psychoanalyst and philosopher Felix Guattari, who was its codirector with Jean Oury until 1992.

In this lyrical chronicle of a childhood at La Borde, Felix Guattari’s daughter Emanuelle Guattari offers a series of impressionistic vignettes drawn from her own experiences. As a child whose parents worked in the clinic, Emanuelle Guattari ( Manou ) experienced La Borde - which is housed in a castle in the middle of a spacious park - as a place not of confinement but of imagination and play.

She evokes a landscape that is surreal but also mundane, describing the fat monkey named Boubou her father kept at the clinic, interactions between the  La Borde kids  and the  Residents (aka, the Insane, feared by the locals), the ever fascinating rainbow-hued  shit pit  on the grounds, and prank-calls to the clinic switchboard. And, of course, there is Felix Guattari himself, at the dinner table, battling a rat, and in his daughter’s dreams.

Emmanuelle Guattari’s tale of childlike wonder offers a poetic counterpoint to the writings of her father and his intellectual circle.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Autonomedia
Country
United States
Date
10 October 2014
Pages
88
ISBN
9781584351375