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Originally Posted by demonrail666
I just looked up the Icarus Project and it does seem really interesting.
I think there were definitely similarities between Foucault's and Laing's positions. In many ways I think they were French and British equivalents of one another - at least with regards issues of mental illness. Guattari is the other really fascinating one, I think. He tends to get a bit sidelined by some people, who seem to see him as little more than Robin to Deleuze's Batman, but the stuff he wrote by himself on the anti-psychiatry movement is quite brilliant.
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Yes, there are certainly many similarities. A major difference is the way in which they conduct their research - Foucault, of course, is all about histories, discovering how systems came to be a transform, how power is created etc. whereas Laing focuses primarily on lived in experiences. In some ways, I think that they both really complement each other.
I have never read Guattari. Which of his works would you recommended?