Abstract

MASCARELLO, Fernando  and  WEINMANN, Amadeu de Oliveira. The feminization of the straight man in eXistenZ, by David Cronenberg. Rev. psicol. polít. [online]. 2022, vol.22, n.55, pp.700-718. ISSN 2175-1390.

This article proposes an analytical revisitation of the film eXistenZ (1999), by David Cronenberg, focusing on one of its central themes, but little explored by its critical fortune: male feminization in the arena of heterosexual erotic practices. The theme is articulated in the film, in our understanding, through its (1) allegorical figuration of man's anal eroticization and of the tantric and daoist eroticisms. Our exploratory approach has the double methodological character of film interpretation and psychoanalytic listening, built at the interfaces between the fields of psychoanalysis and film studies. It is also supported by concepts from the academic fields of men's and masculinities, feminist and queer studies, and, for the purpose of describing the object, from subsidies sought in the emerging Tantric and Daoist academic studies. In psychoanalysis, we mobilize recent antiphallocentric formulations by scholars such as Jacques André, Gerald I. Fogel, Silvia Bleichmar and Monique Schneider.

Keywords : Psychoanalysis; Masculinities; David Cronenberg; Tantra; Daoism.

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