Venom: A Desiring Machine

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https://doi.org/10.5195/cinej.2020.231

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Venom, Deleuze, desiring machines, psychoanalysis, Deleuzean desire

Abstract

This paper focuses on the protagonist in Venom (2018). The debate is based on the double character of Eddie-Venom and traces the Deleuzean desire of this folded identity. How Eddie’s dark desires are suppressed and united by Venom, a symbiote? Schizoanalysis, a counter-method of psychoanalysis, assumes a dual identity for dealing with the rational space surrounding us. Psychoanalysis however, establishes a family-based representational system. For Deleuze and Guattari, free associations during schizophrenic life are to be preferred instead of the representational approach in psychoanalysis. schizo-esthetics, a network of desiring machines, is the liberty of the subject to remain in the world non-hierarchically and the abandonment of the order of symbols.

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2020-03-11

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Yücel, V. (2020). Venom: A Desiring Machine. CINEJ Cinema Journal, 8(1), 14–29. https://doi.org/10.5195/cinej.2020.231

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