Images of oedipalization and de-oedipalization in scientific cognition

The aim of this article is to explicate the epistemological aspects of Deleuze and Guattari's concept of desire, presented in Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. It is shown that the Oedipalization of desire, characteristic of Freudian psychoanalysis, has a parallel in T. Kuhn's paradigmatic concept of science. Oedipal triangulation and the scientific paradigm act as constructive, rather than reflective, factors of cognition. In the linguistic interpretation of the Oedipus complex, the name of the Father correlates with the system of conventional restrictions formed by authoritative members of the scientific community, its elite. It is substantiated that the schizoanalytic concept of desire as "machine production" is reflected in ethnographic concepts of science (K. Knorr-Cetina, B. Latour and St. Walgar, M. Lynch). It is demonstrated that the bricolage logic of desire is reflected in the behavior and communication of the laboratory scientist.