Can someone explain Body without Organs and the premise of Anti-Oedipus?

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I had a section on this when I was in college, but missed the lecture. It always sounded interesting, and I would like an easy-to-understand but thorough explaination of exactly what a Body Without Organs is and what Anti-Oedipus is all about. It's such a difficult read.....

I am the only person that put anything relavent to this category and i get no answers? y!a sux......

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Anti-Œdipus (1972) is a book by the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze and psychoanalyst Félix Guattari. It is the first volume of Capitalism and Schizophrenia, the second volume being A Thousand Plateaus (1980). It presents an eclectic account of human psychology, economics, society, and history, showing how "primitive", "despotic", and " capitalist regimes" differ in their organization of production, inscription, and consumption. It claims to describe how capitalism ultimately channels all desires through an axiomatic money-based economy, a single-minded form of organization that is abstract, rather than local or material.

In Anti-Oedipus, Deleuze and Guattari begin to develop their concept of the BwO - body without organs, their term for the changing social body of desire. Since desire can take on as many forms as there are persons to implement it, it must seek new channels and different combinations to realize itself, forming a BwO for every instance. Desire is not limited to the affections of a subject.