Chaosophy - autonomous learning

the other and his singular network of relations. What made the
success of their joint intellectual endeavor possible was the mobilization
of everything that made their personalities different,
sharpening contrasts rather looking for an artificial osmosis. Both
had a very high idea of friendship. Guattari had admittedly been
apprehensive of meeting with Deleuze face-to-face. He was more at
ease working with groups, and would rather have involved his
friends from the CERFF and integrated them in their collaboration.
Putting their first book together, especially, mostly involved
an exchange of letters.8 This writing protocol upset Guattari's
everyday life, and he had to immerse himself in a kind of solitary
work he wasn't used to. Deleuze expected him to go to his work
table as soon as he woke up, jot his ideas down on a piece of paper
(he had three ideas a minute) and, without even rereading it, send
him the products of his reflections in their rough state. Deleuze
thus subjected Guattari to a kind of asceticism which he believed
necessary for him to overcome his writing problems. Guattari fully
went along and locked himself up into his office, working like a
horse to the point of getting writers' cramp. Instead of spending his
time directing his groups, he found himself confined to his lonely
study every day until 4 p.m. He only went to La Borde in the late
afternoon, always in a rush because he always had to be back to his
house in Dhuizon around 6 p.m. The director of the clinic, Jean
Oury, experienced this change as an intolerable desertion. Usually
omnipresent in the daily life of La Borde, Guattari had to remove
himself from all the activities at the clinic and devote himself to his
work with Deleuze.
According to the writing arrangement they adopted for Anti­
Oedipus, Guattari would send preparatory texts which Deleuze
would rework and polish into their final versions: "Deleuze said
that Felix discovered the diamonds and he was cutting them for
him. Guattari only had to send him the texts as he wrote them and
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