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Psycho-geography and schizophrenia: queers 'out for a walk'
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posted on 2023-06-08, 10:57 authored by Ioannis VamvakitisI strongly believe that an emancipatory homoerotic desire could only exist as a schizophrenic desire which according to Deleuze's and Guattari's 'schizoanalysis' is simultaneously 'architectural' (Grosz, E, 2001) and anti-structural — it is counter-structural, and thus, revolutionary, productive and proud (Deleuze, Guattari, 1982). Therefore, in my DPhil project, I am scrutinizing whether the homosexual could be what Deleuze and Guattari have defined as an 'Anti-Oedipus' who through his/her 'schizophrenic' wanderings 'confronts' capitalism's social fascism 'that causes us to love [social] power [and] desire the… [structures] that dominate and exploit us' (Foucault, M, 1982, xii). What I would like to find out is whether the homosexuals could present a schizo-desiring e/motion that strives against capitalism's strategic homophobic places — institutional discourses — of power and truth, and in conflict with its 'Psychoanalysts and Semiologists' who interpret desire in relation to structure and 'lack' (Foucault, 1982, xii). Moreover, and in relation to R. D. Laing's 'anti-psychiatric' existential ontology, I will attempt to clarify whether the schizo-desiring and anti-structural homoerotic e/motion — in the case that it does exist — constitutes the homosexual subjects anti-social leading them to marginality, 'despair' (Laing, R. D., 1960), and eventually, to disciplinary institutionalisation, or whether it constitutes them counter-social leading them to radical and liberating modes of social embodiment — to counter-structural, heterotopian identity and space-time constructions 2. What I would like to find out is whether we could discover "schizo-geographies" in the UK and in Greece. I am looking for transcendental dimensions where the homosexual technical and 'neurotic' subjects moving within structural spaces, are being transformed into 'schizophrenic' desiring subjects moving within 'closet' spaces and/or towards the creation of counter-structural spaces and 'anti-oedipal' psychogeographies. If these transcendental dimensions do exist, two very important questions to answer are: first, whether these "schizo-geographies" depend on each homosexual subject's psychic particularities, explaining whether the homoerotic desire constitutes heterogeneous subjects and a diversity of e/motions; and second, whether they depend on each country's national and cultural features and differences, explaining whether the homoerotic desire and its schizo-driftings obey structural specificities of the 'nation'? Last year at the MECCSA conference (12/2003) I presented my DPhil's major theoretical concepts. This year I would like to present my Greek subjects' psychogeographical maps (17 slides)- how do these theoretical concepts apply on real gay and lesbian people moving within real spaces?
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Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER)Page range
277-294Pages
320.0Book title
Mass Media: International IssuesPlace of publication
AthensISBN
9608867282Department affiliated with
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Alexandros Arampatsis, Yorgo PassadeosLegacy Posted Date
2012-02-21Usage metrics
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