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PLEASURE, PERVERSION AND DEATH
Three Lines of Flight for the Viewing Body
Patricia MacCormack

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CONTENTS
  

ABSTRACT

  
0. INTRODUCTION
 0.1 Horror…
0.2 Kristeva’s Powers of Horror and the ‘I’/Other system destroyed
0.3 Abjection, Aesthetics and the Primacy of Materiality
0.4 Foucault’s Order Thing
0.5 Discourse, Epistemes and Identical Terms
0.6 Toward an Ethics of Horror


1. PLEASURE
Beginning the Becoming


1.0
1.1 An Introduction to Theories of Pleasure
1.2 Pleasure in Medical Discourse - Equilibrium and Level Zero
1.3 Visual Pleasure/ Visual Truth?
1.4 Technophiliatic Pleasure in Viewing
1.5 City of the Living Dead - A Practical Application
1.6 Ingesting Pleasure; Ingesting Flesh


2. PERVERSION
Becoming Filmic

2.0
2.1 Perversion across Discourse - The Regulated Body
2.2 The Essential Static of Flesh in Science
2.3 Sex is Natural, Sex is Good?
2.4 The Perversion of Watching Film
2.5 Suspiria: Buildings and Becoming
2.6 Affect-ion, Desire and Becoming
2.7 Watching Monsters


3. DEATH
Becoming Horror

3.0
3.1 A Brief Introduction to Psychoanalytic Death
3.2 Regression and Aggression
3.3 Death and Representation
3.4 Forensics are Fun?
3.5 Faciality
3.6 Ethno-Faciality
3.7 The Sacrificial Face
3.8 Death Film: Mondo, Necro and Fakes


4. CONCLUSION
The Ethics of Becoming

4.0
4.1 Subjectivity and Lived Bodies
4.2 Feminist Problems with Post-Modern Subjectivity
4.3 Becoming-Woman and Other Male Phantasies
4.4 Becoming Horror
 

 

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