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'''Deterritorialization''' is a [[concept]] created by [[Gilles Deleuze]] and [[Félix Guattari]] in ''[[Anti-Oedipus]]'' (1972), which, in accordance to Deleuze's desire and [[philosophy]], quickly became used by others, for example in [[anthropology]], and transformed in this reappropriation. Deleuze and Guattari encouraged this use of their concepts in other senses than that they w(contracted; show full)

===Abstraction===
[[Deleuze]] and [[Guattari]] use deterritorialization to designate the freeing of labor-power from specific means of production.  For example, English peasants were banished by the [[Enclosure Acts]] (1709–1869) from common land when it was enclosed for private landlords.

More generally, deterritorialization can describe any process that decontextualizes a set of relations, rendering them [[virtual
_  (philosophy)|virtual]] and preparing them for more distant actualizations. In ''Anti-Oedipus'', the obvious parallel example of economic deterritorialization is psychic deterritorialization. Deleuze and Guattari praise Freud for liberating psychic energy with the idea of libido. They criticize him for reterritorializing libido onto the terrain of a specific [[Oedipus complex|Oedipal drama]].

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