Desiring-production treats desire as productive connections among bodies, material processes, and social relations, rather than a representation of a missing object. In Anti-Oedipus, production does not presuppose an independent subject standing before these connections.
A workplace may connect machines, wages, habits, expectations, and authority. Desire is investigated within this organization rather than added afterwards as a private feeling. The example opens an analysis without prescribing one model for every workplace.
Marx’s production and Freud’s unconscious become interlocutors. Rather than simply combining their theories, the authors investigate libidinal investments of the social field, within which family relations are also formed.
Productive desire is not inherently emancipatory: it can invest its own subjection. Schizoanalysis investigates such differences. A connection with Spinozist power is possible, while conatus retains its distinct textual meaning.