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Atopological Trilogy creates new concepts for Deleuze-Guattarian thought without any heed for sectarian, sermonising, or dutiful readings of the philosophers. In Part I of the trilogy, "Becoming-Sexual of the Sexual," Aracagök demonstrates the ways in which quantum theory and the concept of "complementarity" inform Deleuze and Guattari's thought, especially in relation to "becoming" in general and "becoming-woman" and "becoming-queer" more particularly. Aracagök argues that the ways in which the philosophers put forward a ban on "becoming-man" with a certain degree of undecidability encapsulates (albeit in a cryptic form) other becomings, the most important of which is becoming-queer, or rather, the becoming-sexual of the sexual.In Part II: "Deleuze on Sound, Music, and Schizo-Incest," Aracagök puts into resonance the sound, noise, and music (and the question) of schizo-incest with the intention of deterritorialising a notion of the meta-audible. If Kafka's story, "The Investigations of a Dog" leads us to a realm of the "formless" which cannot be heard without destroying what we know as "hearing," it also offers us a limit-experience of the meta-audible, which, when radicalised via the notions of "schizo-incest" and "self-shattering," creates a line of flight that escapes even from the line of flight itself. All these maneuvers pose a serious challenge to Deleuze and Guattari, who claim that despite all his investigations, Kafka's investigator dog is re-Oedipalised in the end. Proposing in the end a limit experience which Aracagök calls the "meta-audible," he shows that Kafka's more radical approach to sound creates a line of flight that escapes even from the line of flight itself.The final essay of the trilogy, "Clinical and Critical Perversion," begins with the 19th-century crisis of an abyss presumed to be yawning between mimesis and diegesis ever since Plato. According to Aracagök, this takes the form of a crisis of the "political," the repression of which becomes the mission of psychoanalytical discourse towards the end of the 19th century. This crisis finds another form of expression in George Büchner's unfinished 1836 novella Lenz, relative to the audibility of a "terrible voice which is usually called silence." If the disappearance of the "political" is related to the rise of psychoanalysis on the protocols of, first, hypnosis, and then, the "talking cure," both of which privilege the presumed form of the voice of the analyst over the analysand's silence (a psycho-politics?), Aracagök proposes re-distributing this process, calling renewed attention to the clinicalisation of perversion, along Deleuzian-Guattarian distinctions such as: surface and depth, critical and clinical, oedipal-incest and schizo-incest, leading to a re-evaluation of what Deleuze and Guattari might have meant by "homosexual-effusion" in their book Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature, all in order to deterritorialise the "political" under a new concept -- namely, critical perversion.Ultimately, Atopological Trilogy offers the reader no safe grounds for preserving not only a philosophical identity but also not any identity, if only to be able to let you float in the air without any guidance à la Kafka's "Red Indian."

Ontology. --- Guattari, Felix, --- Deleuze, Gilles, --- psychoanalysis --- cultural studies --- Gilles Deleuze --- noise --- Felix Guattari --- perversion

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Leo Bersani, known for his provocative interrogations of psychoanalysis, sexuality, and the human body, centers his latest book on a surprisingly simple image: a newborn baby simultaneously crying out and drawing its first breath. These twin ideas-absorption and expulsion, the intake of physical and emotional nourishment and the exhalation of breath-form the backbone of Receptive Bodies, a thoughtful new essay collection. These titular bodies range from fetuses in utero to fully eroticized adults, all the way to celestial giants floating in space. Bersani illustrates his exploration of the body's capacities to receive and resist what is ostensibly alien using a typically eclectic set of sources, from literary icons like Marquis de Sade to cinematic provocateurs such as Bruno Dumont and Lars von Trier. This sharp and wide-ranging book will excite scholars of Freud, Foucault, and film studies, or anyone who has ever stopped to ponder the give and take of human corporeality.

Human body (Philosophy) --- Human body --- Sex (Psychology) --- Sexual excitement. --- Psychoanalysis. --- Erotic aspects. --- social philosophy, humanism, demographic studies, lgbtq, psychoanalysis, sexuality, gender, gws, human body, emotional nourishment, essays, essay collection, fetuses in utero, eroticized adults, erotic, sex, marquis de sade, perversion, cinematic provocateurs, bruno dumont, lars von trier, freud, foucault, film study, corporeality, psychology, sexual excitement, sensuality.

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This original study re-evaluates central texts of the modernist canon - Eliot's early poetry including The Waste Land, Joyce's Ulysses and Proust's Remembrance of Things Past - by examining sexual energies and identifications in them that are typically regarded as perverse. According to modern cultural discourses and psychosexual categorizations, these deviant desires and identifications feminize men, or tend to render them homosexual. Colleen Lamos's analysis of the operations of gender and sexuality in these texts reveals conflicts, concerning the definition of masculine heterosexuality, which cut across the aesthetics of modernism. She argues that canonical male modernism, far from being a monolithic entity with a coherently conservative political agenda, is in fact the site of errant impulses and unresolved struggles. What emerges is a reconsideration of modernist literature as a whole, and a recognition of the heterogeneous forces which formed and deformed modernism.

Paraphilias in literature. --- Gender identity in literature. --- Masculinity in literature. --- Modernism (Literature) --- Sex in literature. --- Men in literature. --- Crepuscolarismo --- Literary movements --- Masculinity (Psychology) in literature --- Sexual deviation in literature --- Sexual perversion in literature --- Eliot, T. S. --- Proust, Marcel, --- Joyce, James, --- Homer. --- Birmingham, Kevin. --- Eliot, Thomas Stearns --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Modernism (Literature). --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature --- Ai-lüeh-tʻe, --- Īliyūt, T. S., --- Elliŏtʻŭ, --- Eliot, Thōmas S., --- Eliot, Th. S., --- Eliot, Thomas Stern, --- Elyoṭ, T. S., --- Ėliot, Tomas Stirns, --- אליוט ט.ס --- אליוט, ת. ס.

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It has long been recognised that the Gothic genre sensationalised beliefs and practices associated with Catholicism. Often, the rhetorical tropes and narrative structures of the Gothic, with its lurid and supernatural plots, were used to argue that both Catholicism and sexual difference were fundamentally alien and threatening to British Protestant culture. Ultimately, however, the Gothic also provided an imaginative space in which unconventional writers from John Henry Newman to Oscar Wilde could articulate an alternative vision of British culture. Patrick O'Malley charts these developments from the origins of the Gothic novel in the mid-eighteenth century, through the mid-nineteenth-century sensation novel, toward the end of the Victorian Gothic in Bram Stoker's Dracula and Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure. O'Malley foregrounds the continuing importance of Victorian Gothic as a genre through which British authors defined their culture and what was outside it.

English fiction --- Gothic revival (Literature) --- Paraphilias in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Catholic Church --- In literature. --- Paraphilias in literature --- Sexual deviation in literature --- Sexual perversion in literature --- History and criticism --- Literary movements --- Revival movements (Art) --- Romanticism --- Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English --- English gothic fiction (Literary genre) --- Church of Rome --- Roman Catholic Church --- Katholische Kirche --- Katolyt︠s︡ʹka t︠s︡erkva --- Römisch-Katholische Kirche --- Römische Kirche --- Ecclesia Catholica --- Eglise catholique --- Eglise catholique-romaine --- Katolicheskai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ --- Chiesa cattolica --- Iglesia Católica --- Kościół Katolicki --- Katolicki Kościół --- Kościół Rzymskokatolicki --- Nihon Katorikku Kyōkai --- Katholikē Ekklēsia --- Gereja Katolik --- Kenesiyah ha-Ḳatolit --- Kanisa Katoliki --- כנסיה הקתולית --- כנסייה הקתולית --- 가톨릭교 --- 천주교 --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature

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Explores the implications of scientific discourse on Russian concepts of mental illness and national health

Mental illness --- Mental health --- Science --- Russian literature --- Art and mental illness --- Madness --- Mental diseases --- Mental disorders --- Disabilities --- Psychology, Pathological --- Emotional health --- Mental hygiene --- Mental physiology and hygiene --- Happiness --- Health --- Public health --- Psychiatry --- Psychology --- Natural science --- Natural sciences --- Science of science --- Sciences --- Insanity and art --- Mental illness and art --- Psychiatry and art --- Psychotic art --- Art --- Art brut --- History and criticism. --- Andreyev, Leonid, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Mental health. --- Degeneration in literature. --- Mental illness in literature. --- Ethics in literature. --- Paraphilias in literature. --- Neurasthenia. --- Cultural Studies --- Literary Studies: Plays & Playwrights --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama --- Eastern Europe --- Russia --- Social conditions --- Breakdown, Nervous --- Exhaustion, Nervous --- Nervous breakdown --- Nervous exhaustion --- Nervous prostration --- Neurasthenic neuroses --- Prostration, Nervous --- Asthenia --- Somatoform disorders --- Sexual deviation in literature --- Sexual perversion in literature --- Insanity in literature --- Psychopathology in literature --- Soviet Union --- Decadence. --- Degeneration. --- Illness narrative. --- Leonid Andreev. --- Madness. --- Psychiatry. --- Russian fin de siècle. --- Russian literature.