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Intensywna podróż: od psychoanalizy do schizoanalizy kina
Intensive Voyage: From Cinepsychoanalysis to the Schizoanalysis of Cinema

Author(s): Agnieszka Kotwasińska
Subject(s): Semiology, Marxism, Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Present Times (2010 - today), Film / Cinema / Cinematography, Ontology
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: Anti-Oedipus; schizoanalysis; cinema; film theory; psychoanalysis; sensation, horror; Psycho; zombie; representation;

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the article is to trace how the critique of psychoanalysis, developed by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari in Anti-Oedipus, has influenced Anglo-American film theory in the last two decades. In the first part of the article, the author describes a somewhat peculiar theoretical impasse that has plagued film studies; a blockage caused by an overemphasis on psychoanalytic interpretations which revolve around identification, spectatorship, and representation. In the second part, the author presents selected publications that have entered into a creative dialogue with both cinepsychoanalysis and schizoanalysis, and includes two interpretations of famous horror movies: Psycho and The Dawn of the Dead. In both cases psychoanalytic commentary is pushed aside, while the deleuzian-guattarian concept of desire and the notion of an affective film experience are moved into the foreground.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 25
  • Page Range: 371-383
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Polish