Becoming-Animal Is a Trap for Humans: Deleuze and Guattari in Madagascar

Laurie, TL

Becoming-Animal Is a Trap for Humans: Deleuze and Guattari in Madagascar

Laurie, TL

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Publisher:: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication Type:: Chapter
Citation:: Deleuze and the Non/Human, 2015, pp. 42 - 62
Issue Date:: 2015-04-23

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dc.contributor.author	Laurie, TL https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3453-775X	en_US
dc.contributor.editor	Stark, HS	en_US
dc.contributor.editor	Roffe, JR	en_US
dc.date.issued	2015-04-23	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Deleuze and the Non/Human, 2015, pp. 42 - 62	en_US
dc.identifier.isbn	1137453699	en_US
dc.identifier.isbn	9781137453693	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/44217
dc.description.abstract	"If you were introducing Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari 's A Thousand Plateaus (1980) to a seven-year-old who found Anti-Oedipus (1972) boring, you might say that the sequel has more animals." This essay argues that Deleuze and Guattari's concept of 'becoming-animal' offers a a supple framework for reading the nonhuman outside the templates provided by psychoanalysis and structuralism. At the same time, it argues that 'becoming-animal' entraps the reader at the very moment that it acquires any normative force, because the will to 'become-animal' presupposes a modality of narcissistic ego-formation. It makes these arguments by way of DreamWorks' 'Madagascar' animated film franchise, read through psychoanalytic, structuralist and queer lenses, and pays special attention to despotic lemur King Julien, an "anomalous" figure of cultural mobility.	en_US
dc.publisher	Palgrave Macmillan	en_US
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dc.title	Becoming-Animal Is a Trap for Humans: Deleuze and Guattari in Madagascar	en_US
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Abstract:

"If you were introducing Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari 's A Thousand Plateaus (1980) to a seven-year-old who found Anti-Oedipus (1972) boring, you might say that the sequel has more animals." This essay argues that Deleuze and Guattari's concept of 'becoming-animal' offers a a supple framework for reading the nonhuman outside the templates provided by psychoanalysis and structuralism. At the same time, it argues that 'becoming-animal' entraps the reader at the very moment that it acquires any normative force, because the will to 'become-animal' presupposes a modality of narcissistic ego-formation. It makes these arguments by way of DreamWorks' 'Madagascar' animated film franchise, read through psychoanalytic, structuralist and queer lenses, and pays special attention to despotic lemur King Julien, an "anomalous" figure of cultural mobility.

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