Introduction: Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing: Collaboration as Biography

In François Dosse's excellent biography of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, he writes, “The success of their common intellectual work depended on mobilizing and using everything that made them different, rather than pre-tending they worked in osmosis.” Robert Maggiori believed Deleuze and Guattari retained “the distance that Jankelevitch called "amative distance,‟ meaning that you are not restricted to a specific position … an amative distance has to do with rapprochement or distancing.