Between Form and Molecule: Investigating the Beyond in Chris Colfer’s The Wishing Spell

Fairy tales permeate the world with a magical charm, but time has brought changes in fairy tale narration, mode, context and interpretations. Under the post structural lens, the undertaken research investigates the transformations that occur at molecular level, beyond the physical and molar corporeality among selected characters in the fairy tale, The wishing spell (2013). The focus is not the examination of changes in physical anatomic structure or form of the selected characters, rather the exploration of body’s capability and potentials of undergoing phenomenological transformations through the lens of becoming molecular by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari (1987). Becoming molecular promotes the idea that instead of comprehending the whole form of an issue, a fragment or molecule needs to be comprehended as it makes it easy to understand the entire form of problem. Becoming molecular is an internal or mind attachment of the body to another entity and the attachment or link is beyond the physical form of corporal state of being. The undertaken research endeavors to map multiple occurrences of becoming molecular in the characters of Snow White and the Evil Queen, by following the thematic model of textual analysis by Miles and Huberman (2014). The findings reveal that becoming molecular is an endless process that emerges in unlimited molecular links amid two different bodies. These links illuminate profound insights by influencing thoughts and bringing changes in actions and behavior. The changes cannot be perceived through senses as in the physical world. These links do not disrupt the physical appearance of either body, rather bring changes at molecular level.

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Mobilization of the Planet from the Spirit of Self-Intensification

TDR/The Drama Review ◽

10.1162/dram.2006.50.4.36 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 50 (4) ◽

pp. 36-43 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Peter Sloterdijk

Keyword(s):

Critical Theory ◽

Gilles Deleuze ◽

Body Movement ◽

The Body ◽

Felix Guattari ◽

Peter Sloterdijk ◽

First Time ◽

The Relationship

The articles in this first installment of a series on choreography that considers the relationship between philosophy and dance interrogate conceptions of the body, movement, and language. Translated for the first time into English, the selection by José Gil reads the dancing body as paradoxical through the writings of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari; and the chapter by Peter Sloterdijk examines modernity's impulse toward movement and posits a critical theory of mobilization. An interview with choreographer Hooman Sharifi accompanies a meditation on his recent performance.

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SUBJETIVAÇÕES RIZOMÁTICAS E A IDEIA DE CORPO SEM ÓRGÃOS EM A FÚRIA DO CORPO, DE JOÃO GILBERTO NOLL

Revista Graphos ◽

10.22478/ufpb.1516-1536.2019v21n1.46549 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 21 (1) ◽

pp. 261-275

Author(s):

Francisca Gilmara da Silva Almiro ◽

Roniê Rodrigues da Silva

Keyword(s):

Identity Construction ◽

Gilles Deleuze ◽

The Body ◽

Felix Guattari ◽

Critical Reading ◽

Deleuze And Guattari ◽

Brazilian Literature ◽

Body Without Organs ◽

The Way

O trabalho apresenta uma leitura da obra A Fúria do corpo, de João Gilberto Noll, a partir dos conceitos de Corpo sem Órgãos e Rizoma propostos pelos filósofos franceses Gilles Deleuze e Félix Guattari. Nesse sentido, objetiva estudar a construção identitária das personagens da referida narrativa, estabelecendo uma associação com essas noções filosóficas, problematizando, sobretudo, a errância das personagens e a linguagem utilizada para a composição da obra. Ao longo da leitura crítica, destacaremos como o texto de Noll nos desafia à construção de sentidos através de uma subjetividade constituída a partir de linhas de fuga, ideia discutida pelos filósofos supracitados. Ao adentrarmos no texto ficcional pelo viés de tais linhas, é possível entender como as personagens percebem e vivem suas experimentações rizomáticas. Desse modo, não se pretende aqui atribuir sentidos fechados à narrativa, mas sugerir que o Corpo sem Órgãos e o Rizoma são características que representam as experiências errantes das personagens encontradas na escrita de Noll. Palavras-chave: Literatura Brasileira Contemporânea. João Gilberto Noll. Identidade. Corpo sem Órgãos. Rizoma. THE RHIZOME AND THE IDEA OF BODY WITHOUT ORGANS IN THE FURY OF THE BODY, BY JOÃO GILBERTO NOLL Abstract: This paper presents a reading of The Fury of the Body, by João Gilberto Noll, based on the concepts of Body without Organs and Rhizome proposed by French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. It aims to study the characters’ identity construction, establishing an association with these philosophical notions, exploring, especially, the characters’ wandering nature and the language used in the composition of the work. Throughout this critical reading, emphasis will be given on the way Noll’s text challenge us to construct directions through a subjectivity built from escape lines, a concept defined by Deleuze and Guattari. By reading the narrative through these lenses, it is possible to understand how the characters perceive and live their rhizomatic trials. Thus, the intention here is not to attribute closed meanings to the narrative, but to suggest that the Body without Organs and the Rhizome are features that represent the characters’ wandering experiences in The Fury of the Body. Keywords: Contemporary Brazilian Literature. João Gilberto Noll. Identity. Body without Organs. Rhizome.

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Sense and Segmentarity: Some Markers of a Deleuzian-Guattarian Sociology

Sociological Theory ◽

10.1111/0735-2751.00042 ◽

1998 ◽

Vol 16 (1) ◽

pp. 52-74 ◽

Cited By ~ 14

Author(s):

William Bogard

Keyword(s):

Social Theory ◽

Social Life ◽

Gilles Deleuze ◽

Molecular Level ◽

Theory And Practice ◽

Social Structures ◽

Felix Guattari ◽

Deleuze And Guattari ◽

Organic Form ◽

The Subject

Although the focus of their work was rarely explicitly sociological, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari developed concepts that have important and often profound implications for social theory and practice. Two of these, sense and segmentarity, provide us with entirely new ways to view sociological problems of meaning and structure. Deleuze conceives sense independently of both agency and signification. That is, sense is neither the manifestation of a communicating subject nor a structure of language—it is noncorporeal, impersonal, and prelinguistic, in his words, a “pure effect or event.” With Guattari, Deleuze notes that it is not a question of how subjects produce social structures, but how a “machinics of desire” produces subjects. In Deleuze and Guattari, desire is not defined as a want or a lack, but as a machinery of forces, flows, and breaks of energy. The functional stratification we witness in social life is only the molar effect of a more primary segmentation of desire that occurs at the molecular level, at the level of bodies. In Deleuze and Guattari, bodies are not just human bodies, but “anorganic” composites or mixtures, organic form itself being a mode of the body's subjectification. The problem of the subject, and thus of the constitution of society, is first a problem of how the sense of bodies is produced through the assembly of desiring-machines. The subject, we could say, is the actualization of desire on the incorporeal surface of bodies.

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Mutant Enunciations

TDR/The Drama Review ◽

10.1162/dram.2006.50.4.17 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 50 (4) ◽

pp. 17-20 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

André Lepecki

Keyword(s):

Critical Theory ◽

Gilles Deleuze ◽

Body Movement ◽

The Body ◽

Felix Guattari ◽

Peter Sloterdijk ◽

First Time ◽

The Relationship

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O CORPO EM COSTURA, CORPO EM ABERTURA. THE COSTURED BODY: FISSURING THE BOOK OF SCIENCES.

RevistAleph ◽

10.22409/revistaleph.v0i31.39271 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Dhemersson Warly Santos Costa ◽

Maria dos Remédios De Brito

Keyword(s):

Gilles Deleuze ◽

The Body ◽

Felix Guattari ◽

Science Textbook

ResumoO ensaio pretende tecer linhas reflexivas acerca o corpo através de um exercício de criação imagética de corpos (im)possíveis costurados sobre a superfície do livro didático de ciências. A produção das imagens costuradas parte da seguinte questão: é possível criar um corpo para além do discurso biológico no livro didático? Tomamos como aliança conceitual a filosofia da diferença de Gilles Deleuze e Félix Guattari, na construção do mote argumentativo: é possível pensar e produzir um corpo para si que percorra outras linhas, aquelas que se chamam molares, moleculares e linhas de fuga. Um corpo atravessado pelo desejo, sendo este a instância produtiva que o rasga, desfazendo formas e costurando outras composições e arranjos. AbstractThe essay intends to weave reflective lines about the body through an imaging exercise of possible (im) bodies sewn onto the surface of the science textbook. The production of the stitched images starts from the following question: is it possible to create a body beyond the biological discourse in the textbook? We take as a conceptual alliance the philosophy of difference between Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, in the construction of the argumentative motto: it is possible to think and produce a body for itself that runs along other lines, those that are called molars, molecular and lines of escape. A body crossed by desire, this being the productive instance that rips it, undoing forms and sewing other compositions and arrangements.

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Reflections on Failure

TDR/The Drama Review ◽

10.1162/dram.2006.50.4.44 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 50 (4) ◽

pp. 44-51

Author(s):

Jenn Joy

Keyword(s):

Critical Theory ◽

Gilles Deleuze ◽

Body Movement ◽

The Body ◽

Felix Guattari ◽

Peter Sloterdijk ◽

First Time ◽

The Relationship

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Archetypal analysis of “Cinderella”

SHS Web of Conferences ◽

10.1051/shsconf/202112206006 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 122 ◽

pp. 06006

Author(s):

Liudmila A. Mirskaya ◽

Victor O. Pigulevskiy

Keyword(s):

Fairy Tales ◽

Fairy Tale ◽

Archetypal Analysis ◽

Brothers Grimm ◽

Amplification Method ◽

Individuation Process ◽

Analytical Work ◽

Life Path ◽

And Behavior ◽

Archetypal Images

Psychologists often use the name of the protagonist of the fairy tale “Cinderella”, which is famous thanks to the brothers Grimm and Charles Perrault, for a sacrificial girl prone to dissociation, illusions, and waiting for a prince. This is typical for psychoanalysis. However, such an idea of Cinderella’s character does not fully reflect the essence of the matter. Moreover, it is generally not true. From the perspective of C.G. Jung’s analytical psychology, Cinderella is not a victim or an infantile dreamer and is not a real girl at all. Any tale represents an archetypal process of individuation. This is a collective natural constant of the psyche that excludes individual problems. Cinderella cultivated in herself what the ancient Greeks called “paideia” – the integrity of the personality and inner strength, influence on others. The purpose of the article is to describe the process of Cinderella’s individualization from the position of C.G. Jung’s archetypal approach based on the amplification method. The most relevant sources of recent years on the archetypal analysis of fairy tales are the works by M.-L. von Franz, H. Dieckmann, and C.P. Estés. The novelty of the study consists in the description and analysis of the archetypal images of the collective unconscious, which underlie the process of Cinderella’s individuation and determine her life path. These archetypal images are Persona, Self, Shadow, Anima/Animus, and the symbolic levels of the individuation process can be represented by such alchemical terms as “separation”, “multiplication”, “calcination”, “initiation”, “transformation”, “conjunction”, “solidification”. The levels testify to the character’s inner transformation and, as a result, lead to a happy woman’s destiny. The result of understanding the deep essence of the tale is a psychologist’s analytical work with modern young women, which will lead to positive changes in thinking and behavior.

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A Queer Aesthetic: Identity in Kurosawa Kiyoshi's Horror Films

Film-Philosophy ◽

10.3366/film.2018.0089 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 22 (3) ◽

pp. 448-464

Author(s):

Seán Hudson

Keyword(s):

Everyday Life ◽

Personal Identity ◽

Gilles Deleuze ◽

Judith Butler ◽

The Body ◽

Horror Films ◽

Felix Guattari ◽

Susan Sontag ◽

And Performance

Judith Butler argues that every category of personal identity, such as gender, the body, nationality, sexuality, or ethnicity, is predicated in part on a crisis between what that identity affirms and what it excludes. How this crisis manifests itself in everyday life is key to understanding how identities are reinforced, negotiated, subverted, or rejected on both social and individual levels. In this paper I consider three films directed by Kurosawa Kiyoshi between 2001 and 2006, arguing that they are especially competent in not only representing ontological tensions of this kind within their narratives, but also in manifesting these tensions so that they are made viscerally available to the viewer as affect. To understand how this is achieved, I draw on the work of Susan Sontag, Judith Butler, and Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, among others, to articulate how a stylistic system, or aesthetic, is developed across these films, and what techniques contribute to its production. I find that key components of this aesthetic include images of touch and performance, the transgression of bodily boundaries, and what Margrit Shildrick calls an “erotics of connection” between bodies.

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Fairy Tale Femininities: A Discourse Analysis of Snow White Films 1916-2012

10.26686/wgtn.17008390 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

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Lisbet Rosa Dam

Keyword(s):

Discourse Analysis ◽

Fairy Tales ◽

Fairy Tale ◽

Young Female ◽

The Body ◽

Snow White ◽

Femininity And Masculinity ◽

And Gender ◽

Feminist Poststructuralist ◽

Traditional Femininity

<p>Fairy tales are enduring cultural texts that have enjoyed wide appeal and the continuing popularity of the fairy tale can be seen in the recent proliferation of media employing fairy tale narratives. Fairy tales provide a site of meaning about femininity and masculinity and examining them over time identifies versions of gender that are prized or denigrated within specific social, historical moments. This project was interested in the continuities and divergences in these gendered discourses across time. Although there has been considerable academic interest in fairy tales and gender, few studies have approached the topic from a genealogical perspective. This research extends the current literature through a genealogical analysis of five Snow White films from 1916 to 2012 in addition to incorporating an analysis in relation to a contemporary postfeminist, neoliberal social climate. The research employed a feminist poststructuralist framework and utilised thematic and genealogical Foucauldian discourse analysis to analyse the data. Discursive analyses found enduring discourses of traditional femininity across the films which centrally organised around a binary construction of femininity as ‘good’ or ‘bad.’ A moral discourse worked to construct ‘good’ femininity as prized and bad femininity as punished. Alongside persistent discourses of femininity, however, a newer postfeminist femininity was evident in recent versions of the fairy tale. Consistent with a postfeminist, neoliberal discourse that highlights the importance of the body, analyses found an increased emphasis on beauty and the vast effort required to maintain it. Another postfeminist shift in the tale was the invoking of a girl power discourse to construct Snow as a competent fighter and leader. However, the complex entanglement of discourses of femininity in contemporary society is highlighted by the co-existence of these newer versions of femininity with traditional goals such as achieving a ‘happily ever after.’ From the perspective of possibilities for subjectivity, these shifts in representation appear to offer a young female audience more empowered possibilities of femininity but such power is simultaneously constrained by a complex amalgamation with traditional ‘niceness’ and beauty.</p>

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Therapeutic fairy tale as a tool supporting educational work of the teacher

Problemy Opiekuńczo-Wychowawcze ◽

10.5604/01.3001.0013.2042 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 577 (2) ◽

pp. 14-26

Author(s):

Anna Witkowska-Tomaszewska

Keyword(s):

Fairy Tales ◽

Fairy Tale ◽

Therapeutic Tool ◽

Educational Work ◽

Social Competencies ◽

The World ◽

Adult World ◽

Ancient Times ◽

And Behavior ◽

Attitudes And Behavior

Use of fairy tales as a therapeutic tool dates back to ancient times because Greeks already used fairy tales as a tool to impact human emotions, attitudes and behavior. By fairy tales, children make a parallel between themselves and the protagonists and through the protagonists’ experiences they develop their own cognitive, emotional or social competencies necessary to deal with specifi c situations in their own lives. Interestingly – as stressed by B. Bettelheim – children select from fairy tales things they are ready for, what they can handle at a given moment, at the level they need. Fairy tales are therefore an important tool for children to learn about the world and I would even say that they are “tools for social and cultural decoding” which help children to get to know and understand the adult world. On the other hand, they are tools that enables adults to discover what is happening in the children’s minds of. Thus, a question arises, what kinds of therapeutic fairy tales exist. How to prepare a fairy tale? How can they be used in everyday educational work? This article presents a method of preparing a therapeutic fairy tale and examples of using fairy tales in educational work with children.

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