Felix Guattari was a practicing psychoanalyst and political activist. He embraced both radical psychotherapy or “antipsychiatry” and Marxist politics, though he became disillusioned with the French Communist Party after the May 1968 strikes. In Anti-Oedipus, Gilles Deleuze and Guattari take up the political nature of desire. Deleuze and Guattari’s philosophy is an open system of concepts that relate to events rather than essences or a given state of things. Guattari’s involvement at the Clinique de la Borde centered on experimentation aimed at ending the doctor/patient hierarchy through a collaborative and dynamic methodology. For Deleuze and Guattari, the framework is repressive because it subjects everyone to the same transcendent structure. The individual is thereby subjected to the repression and restraint of the psychoanalytic framework, and the patient is subjected to the interpretation of the powerful and authoritative analyst.