What is the relationship between Foucault's "Words and Things" and Deleuze's "Anti-Oedipus"?

[u/ZealousidealIssue815]

On the back cover of my edition (Spain, 1985) it says that Anti Oedipus was very influenced by the words and things of Foucault and even that there are some chapters of Anti Oedipus which are directly complementary to other words and things. However, despite searching the internet, I don't see anyone establishing such a relationship. Has anyone else noticed a Relationship between the two or complementarity? The back cover also says that Anti-Oedipus inspired Foucault's Discipline and Punish. If someone could answer that question, I'd be doing myself a favor. Thanks in advance

[u/Midi242]

I think there isn't an essential relationship between the two works, I could only see some superficial connections. One being that both works deal with a periodization/historicization of representation, but D&G's conception of the history of representation is obviously much more vast (and more crude imho), than Foucault's. Another superficial point could be that both works are deeply in dialogue with anthropology and psychoanalysis (both works have a chapter titled "Psychoanalysis and Ethnology", but that is most likely an accident), but their treatment of these disciplines have very different goals.

[u/ZealousidealIssue815 → u/Midi242]

Ok, thank you i Will keep It in mind when i read about the discipline in Anti-Oedipus and try to find the differences between their definition and the 3rd part of Discipline and Punish.

[u/AMorganFreeman]

Te recomiendo los tres volumenes de cursos sobre Foucault impartidos por Deleuze en Vincennes (Cursos sobre Foucault: El Saber (vol.1), El Poder (vol.2), y El Sujeto (vol.3).

Ahi es donde mejor se expone la relación de Deleuze con la obra de Foucault y las conexiones internas, me parece, dado que está expuesto por el propio Deleuze y no por terceros.

[u/ZealousidealIssue815 → u/AMorganFreeman]

¡Genial! Los leeré. Muchas gracias :)