Deleuze and Guattari understand the Oedipus complex as a culture-specific phenomenon, specifically a Western bourgeois one. The starting point of their work is the desire production of "normal" and "schizophrenic" individuals in contemporary capitalist society, with a particular focus on analyzing the "schizo" to illuminate the societal mechanisms that marginalize him. In an extensive excursus, Deleuze and Guattari present various forms of socialization and schizophrenia, thereby establishing initial categories for a "schizo-analysis," which is fundamentally a socio-analysis.