Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (French: Capitalisme et schizophrénie. L'anti-Œdipe) is a 1972 book by French authors Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, respectively a philosopher and a psychoanalyst. It is the first volume of Capitalism and Schizophrenia, the second being A Thousand Plateaus (1980) Deleuze and Guattari argue that Richard Lindner's painting "Boy with Machine" demonstrates the schizoanalytic thesis of the primacy of desire's social investments over its familial ones: "the turgid little boy has already plugged a desiring-machine into a social machine, short-circuiting the parents."(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Oedipus) Used to illustrate the critical commentary on painting made in the book that forms the subject of the article; painting also forms frontispiece to the book; painting is used by authors of the book as evidence of one of the book's central theses. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Richard_Lindner_-_Boy_with_Machine_(1954).png)