Author： Radley Emma
Publisher： Palgrave Macmillan Ltd
ISSN： 1543-3390
Source： Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society, Vol.17, Iss.4, 2012-12, pp. : 392-409
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Abstract
This article considers whether psychotic experience can have a radical or transformative effect on the category of the subject. Using Lacanian theory, I examine Richard Kelly's 2001 film Donnie Darko is examined, in order to consider the extent to which the space of psychosis allows for a more radical form of agency, and whether the act of `choosing' psychosis can have positive and meaningful effects on a restrictive and destructive symbolic matrix.
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