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Papers by Fabio Domenico Palumbo

Laboratorio dell'ISPF, 2016

Laboratorio dell'ISPF, 2013

Deleuze and Freud. Notes for a study on "The Logic of Sense". Can we claim that Deleuze... more Deleuze and Freud. Notes for a study on "The Logic of Sense". Can we claim that Deleuze is tacitly indebted to Freud and Freudiansm? This essay suggests that Deleuze experienced a double misunderstanding of the father of psychoanalysis. This could be ascribed to the misrecognition of the intrinsic affinities between the critical intention of Deleuze and Guattari and the materialism and anti-cartesianism that informed the Freudian program, and to the unexpected convergences with the latter. Such convergences can be traced in some passages of The Logic of Sense, through the mediation of the Kleinian lesson and the introduction of the concept of phantom – element which sublimates the libidinal energy and the erotic investment; or through dynamic homologies and structural ones with the classical psychoanalytical approach. Thus, Freud could be part of a hidden genealogy of Deleuze's thought.

Mutual Images Journal, 2018

Mutual Images is a biannual, peer reviewed and transcultural research journal established in 2016... more Mutual Images is a biannual, peer reviewed and transcultural research journal established in 2016 by the scholarly and non-profit Mutual Images Research Association, officially registered under French law (Loi 1901). This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

Mutual Images Journal, 2017

Japanese Pop Cultures in Europe today: Economic challenges, Mediated notions, Future opportunitie... more Japanese Pop Cultures in Europe today: Economic challenges, Mediated notions, Future opportunities Mutual Images is a peer reviewed journal established in 2016 by the scholarly and non-profit association Mutual Images, officially registered under French law (Loi 1901). This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. It is registered under the

K. Revue, 2020

Pinocchio e la bella Bambina dai capelli turchini C'era una volta il desiderio ABSTRACT: Collodi'... more Pinocchio e la bella Bambina dai capelli turchini C'era una volta il desiderio ABSTRACT: Collodi's Pinocchio can be read as a psychoanalytical novel, interpreting its characters as conceptual figures. Jacques Lacan, Melanie Klein and Donald Winnicott's theories are considered in order to understand the psychological development of Pinocchio's character. Particularly, this essay considers the relationship between Pinocchio and the Fairy with Turquoise Hair, suggesting that the transformation of Pinocchio from a puppet to a child is the plastic representation of an inner evolution. Pinocchio's escapes and mischiefs should be considered as part of a peculiar dialectic, played by Pinocchio himself and the Fairy, involving desire, lack and love. This work tries to explore the libidinal dynamics of this classical novel of children's literature.

The Pertinence of Exodus: Philosophical Questions on the Contemporary Symbolism of the Biblical Story, 2019

According to Freud, the murder of the primal father is the nucleus of totemism, since the collect... more According to Freud, the murder of the primal father is the nucleus of totemism, since the collective guilt of the primeval brothers, despite their ambivalence towards their father, led prehistoric clans to adopt exogamy and establish religion as a way to make amends for guilt. In Moses and Monotheism, Freud depicts Moses in the role of the primeval tyrant father: in the light of Freud's historical hypothesis, the Semites rebelled to Moses and killed him, similarly to the brothers of the horde. The role of the father in the civilizing process is re-elaborated by Lacan through the notion of Name-of-the-Father. The function of the symbolic father is to regulate desire and to establish the Law. Therefore, this study attempts to show that Freudian and Lacanian father as a "territorializing factor" is crucial to understand exogamy, exodus and migrations.

L'inconscio, 2018

This paper aims to discuss the psychopathology of hysteria according to Lacanian psychoanalysis a... more This paper aims to discuss the psychopathology of hysteria
according to Lacanian psychoanalysis and the nature of
perversion according to Gilles Deleuze’s philosophy prior to his
collaboration with Guattari. This essay tries to show how
hysteria and perversion share some crucial features, stemming
from a common narcissistic root and relating to the troubles of
identification. By intertwining Lacan and Deleuze’s
perspectives, this paper highlights the ‘dark side’ of hysteria
while drawing attentio

K. Revue trans-européenne de philosophie et arts, 1, 2/2018, pp. 225-235, 2018

Letters are always written for the Other. More specifically, they are addressed to the inconsiste... more Letters are always written for the Other. More specifically, they are addressed to the inconsistency of the big Other, as a protest against its powerlessness.
The childish complaint aimed to the Other’s evanescence, in accord with Lacanian psychoanalysis, can be understood in terms of perversion, particularly in its masochistic variant. When Kafka blames his own father for having used rude educational means, he actually blames him for not being powerful enough: according to Slavoj Žižek, this can be ascribed to a perverse strategy which tries to restore the Other’s power in order to reanimate the Self.

The mutual representations and understanding of Korea and Japan can be approached by means of a s... more The mutual representations and understanding of Korea and Japan can be approached by means of a socio-historical framing of the relationships between the two countries in the last decades, stemming from the tragic turmoil of World War II and the postcolonial heritage, including the ‘comfort women’ issue and the problems of the Korean minority in Japan, to the spreading of Japanese pop culture in South Korea and the ‘Korean Wave’ during the 1980s and the 1990s in Japan. Though nowadays resurgent nationalisms in both countries seem to highlight the limits of soft power in mutual acceptance, popular culture can be used as a privileged resource to investigate reciprocal representations between both societies. This paper aims to retrace the above-mentioned issues in a few selected recent Japanese and Korean movies, whose reception in Japan and Korea is connected to the audience sensitivity to the ‘Self and Other’ representations. The topic of the Korean minority in Japan is addressed through Hiroki Ryūichi’s Sayonara Kabukichō (Kabukicho Love Hotel, 2014), partially shot on locations in Shin-Ōkubo, Tokyo’s Korea Town. On the other hand, the rediscovery of Korea’s colonial past, linked to the ‘comfort women’ issue, is seen through the lens of Choi Dong-hoon’s Amsal (Assassination, 2015) and Cho Jung-rae’s Kwihyang (Spirits’ Homecoming, 2016). Japanese and Korean contemporary filmography seems to reflect people’s present worries about a significant Other, geographically and historically linked to the Self, as well as to portray the ethnic and national identity rebuilding through a retelling of history.

The unconscious is the subject-matter of a dispute involving Lacan's heritage and Deleuze's Anti-... more The unconscious is the subject-matter of a dispute involving Lacan's heritage and Deleuze's Anti-Oedipus. Deleuze's concept of desire challenges Lacan's one, counterposing the fully affirmative and vitalistic desiring-production to the negativity of manque à être. Deleuzian Becoming with its productive traits is not only a theoretical framework, but implicates ethical and political consequences, so that the logic of capitalism is akin to that of the desiring-production. This highlights the revolutionary nature of capitalistic production and its deep connection with Lacan's enjoyment.

Full text here: https://www.academia.edu/35543353/Linconscio._Rivista_Italiana_di_Filosofia_e_Psicoanalisi_n._4_2017_Linconscio_storico

Eco’s A Theory of Semiotics (1975) points out that cultural units are organised networks of meani... more Eco’s A Theory of Semiotics (1975) points out that cultural units are organised networks of meanings, so that semantic fields pertain to a specific culture’s world view. Narrative processes participating in sense- making take place within a cultural context, and can be studied via a diatextual approach to the discursive structures and the tools of Greimasian narrative semiotics. Contextualisation in narrative enunciations means not only using elements of actorialisation, spatialisation and temporalisation, but also ‘dramatising’ the relationship between Self and Other through «cultural metaphors» (Gannon 2011). This paper explores three authors’ texts from post-WWII Italian literature, showing three different representations or ‘narra- tive uses’ of Japan: Il re dei Giapponesi (1949), an unfinished novel by Pier Paolo Pasolini; If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (1979), Palomar (1983) and Collection of Sand (1984) by Italo Calvino; Silk (1996), a short novel by Alessandro Baricco. In these texts, I examine the distinct meaning of Japan’s metaphors, high- lighting the different levels of exoticism in Japan’s description, and the different degrees of the subject's involvement in terms of their relationship with otherness (embrayage or débrayage). Japan can be used in literary fiction as a ‘pretext’ (Pasolini), as a setting (Baricco), or as a context (Calvino). In any case, it serves as a cultural metaphor: a rhetorical apparatus conveying portrayals of Japan to Italian contemporary cul- ture with different degrees of verisimilitude, ranging from an almost fable-like scenery to a vague historical background and a peculiar biographical frame.

This paper applies a diatextual approach and Greimasian narrative semiotics to three authors from... more This paper applies a diatextual approach and Greimasian narrative semiotics to three authors from post-WWII Italian literature: Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italo Calvino and Alessandro Baricco. Three different images of Japan are illustrated through the analysis of their works related to the «Land of the Rising Sun»: Il re dei Giapponesi (1949), an unfinished novel by Pasolini; If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (1979), Palomar (1983) and Collection of Sand (1984) by Calvino; Seta (1996), a short novel by Baricco. Japan can be used in literary fiction as a mythical scenery, as a historically vague setting, or as an autobiographical frame: each kind of narrative reveals a different level of exoticism in the representation of Japan.

Gilles Deleuze’s The Logic of Sense (1969) is a «logical and psychoanalytic novel», according to ... more Gilles Deleuze’s The Logic of Sense (1969) is a «logical and psychoanalytic novel», according to the author’s own definition. The book encompasses an ontology of simulacra, which undermines Platonism. Firstly, this paper aims to highlight the aesthetic outcomes of the reversal of Platonism in terms of a realm of simulacra and dissimulation. Secondly, Lewis Carroll’s nonsensical logic and use of paradoxes are analysed according to Deleuze’s theory of sense. Finally, it draws attention to a relationship among dissimulation, paradoxical logic and perversion in a psychoanalytic sense.

Japanese pop culture has influenced Italy over the last thirty years. In the ‘70s anime started t... more Japanese pop culture has influenced Italy over the last thirty years. In the ‘70s anime started to fill the airtime of emerging private TV channels, marking the childhood of those Italian who grew up in those years and until the early ‘90s, when manga finally appeared in the Italian market. Globalization and Internet have made other aspects of Japanese pop culture available to Italians and the rest of the world alike. This phenomenon has resulted into a very active Italian fandom spanning through different generations, and into a strong fascination towards Japan. This paper aims to provide insights on the way Italian fans perceive Japanese pop culture and Japan; on the kind of bonds to Japan they develop, and how they socialize. It does so considering the biggest Italian web-community, AnimeClick.it, as a microcosm of the Italian fandom interactions and emotions. Privileging a qualitative method, it notably focuses on the people who give life to the website. Their images of Japanese pop culture reveal the recognition of a specific cultural odour perceived as pleasant, which translates into an interest in Japan. Those fans associate Japan to images of fantasy and charming mystery that nevertheless co-exist with perceptions of extreme difference echoing the notion of Japanese uniqueness, so that Orientalist processes are re-enacted. There are intergenerational differences in the way fans have developed an emotional bond, and look at Japanese pop culture. However, these get mediated and transcended through their socialization and collaboration in the web-community, opening up new perspectives for the future evolution of the Japanese pop culture’s influence in Italy.

Eros e distruttività nel discorso della psicoanalisi, tra Freud, Lacan e Klein.

[The aesthetics of the floating world: Deleuze's " japonism " ]. Gilles Deleuze's thought echoes ... more [The aesthetics of the floating world: Deleuze's " japonism " ]. Gilles Deleuze's thought echoes beyond European or Western cultural domain; indeed, in Deleuze's work, there is place for a privileged relationship with Asia, Far East, and Japan in particular. The present study highlights the variety of Deleuzian references to Japanese cultural universe, within an essentially aesthetic and cultural framework. In the first instance, this study observes Deleuzian affinities with japonisme as a " cultural fashion " , with a specific focus upon the link between aesthetics of simulacra and Japanese prints of the ukiyo-e genre. Secondly, to be taken into account is the connection between the Deleuzian Ethics of the Event and Zen practice, with reference to the philosophers of the Kyōto School. A comparison between Deleuze's notion of surface, the artistic tradition of emakimono and Japanese cinema (both animated and live-action) is attempted in the conclusion.

Laboratorio dell 'ISPF, X, 2013 Per cogliere la portata dell'opera di Deleuze all'interno del pan... more Laboratorio dell 'ISPF, X, 2013 Per cogliere la portata dell'opera di Deleuze all'interno del panorama filosofico postmoderno, si tratta di far esplodere la densità teoretica collassata attorno ai due nuclei fondamentali di Logica del senso (1969): la struttura formale e la genesi dinamica del senso, ossia da un lato l'ambito proprio della logica (la comprensione del senso), dall'altro quello precipuo della psicologia (il processo attraverso cui l'uomo accede alla funzione linguistica, o, se vogliamo, il legame tra inconscio e linguaggio, entrambi intesi come eccedenti il soggetto). Avventurarsi su tali percorsi significa cogliere il carattere "interlocutorio" della messa a punto della macchina deleuziana operata nella Logique, ancora congegnata su un impianto ingegneristico di matrice strutturalista (l'espressione segnica come cinghia di trasmissione dell'espresso sive del senso), nonché più o meno esitante nel prendere le distanze dall'officina psicoanalitica -sia pure nella versione "debole" fornita da Lacan, ove il padre slitta per metonimia sul Nome-del-Padre. È di tali esitazioni che si vuole rendere conto, e, più segnatamente, di quelle attinenti alla seconda delle questioni sollevate. Più precisamente, si tratta di presentare il passaggio cruciale attraverso il dittico sostanziale costituito da Differenza e ripetizione e Logica del senso (non a caso preceduti dalla significativa monografia su Sacher-Masoch e dal decisivo scritto sullo strutturalismo) come un intermezzo in cui il pensiero deleuziano, prima di realizzare la fusione di orizzonti con la proposta guattariana, si lascia attraversare dalle proprie molteplici paternità, dai diversi "nomi" che parlano attraverso di esso e che esso fa parlare, in un ventriloquio che non scade mai nell'ecolalia. Ci si può domandare quanto sia legittima una tale operazione genealogica. Sarebbe facile rispondere facendo il verso a Deleuze, ossia insegnandogli a parlare la vulgata psicoanalitica, tramite uno smascheramento filologicamente compiaciuto (se non addirittura malevolo) del freudismo inconscio dell'autore de L'anti-Edipo. Piuttosto, ci appare un punto di partenza intellettualmente onesto muovere proprio dalla questione della mancata legittimità, considerando Deleuze un figlio illegittimo di Freud, senza con ciò pretendere di sciogliere il nodo intricato, rizomatico, del suo lignaggio -semmai, sezionando trasversalmente il tronco, per portare alla luce gli anelli di accrescimento della dendritica forma di vita deleuziana. Più che di eredità culturale sottovalutata per vizio di rimozione, dunque ad opera di un meccanismo di difesa che si lascerebbe intendere inconsciamente adottato da Deleuze, si preferisce qui suggerire l'idea di una filiazione vitale, capace di trasmettere la carica liberatoria del desiderio al di qua della castrazione imposta dalla Legge e dal legittimo, eppure passando attraverso di essa. Non v'è nulla che trascenda il principio di piacere 1 : l'Au-delà du principe de plasir è solo un invito all'articolazione molteplice ed eccedente del desiderio.

Talks by Fabio Domenico Palumbo

Venerdì 31 ottobre, nell'ambito di Lucca Comics & Games 2014, AnimeClick.it ha avuto il piacere d... more Venerdì 31 ottobre, nell'ambito di Lucca Comics & Games 2014, AnimeClick.it ha avuto il piacere di ospitare Paolo La Marca (Università di Catania), che, assieme a Fabio 'Kyon' Palumbo della nostra redazione, ha intrattenuto il pubblico convenuto presso la sala incontri della Cappella Guinigi relazionando sul tema “Alle origini dello shōjo manga: un viaggio a ritroso, tra stilemi narrativi e iconografia”.
http://animeclick.it/news/40990-lucca-2014-alle-origini-dello-shoujo-manga-conferenza-animeclickit

Mutual Images Journal by Fabio Domenico Palumbo

Laboratorio dell'ISPF, 2016

Laboratorio dell'ISPF, 2013

Mutual Images Journal, 2018

Mutual Images Journal, 2017

K. Revue, 2020

The Pertinence of Exodus: Philosophical Questions on the Contemporary Symbolism of the Biblical Story, 2019

L'inconscio, 2018

K. Revue trans-européenne de philosophie et arts, 1, 2/2018, pp. 225-235, 2018

Full text here: https://www.academia.edu/35543353/Linconscio._Rivista_Italiana_di_Filosofia_e_Psicoanalisi_n._4_2017_Linconscio_storico

Eros e distruttività nel discorso della psicoanalisi, tra Freud, Lacan e Klein.

La forma cinematografica del Reale. Teorie, pratiche, linguaggi: da Bazin a Netflix, 2020

Cosa ci dice la nostra propensione a guardare compulsivamente un episodio dopo l’altro delle seri... more Cosa ci dice la nostra propensione a guardare compulsivamente un episodio dopo l’altro delle serie TV su piattaforme come Netflix (la cosiddetta pratica del binge-watching) a proposito del nostro rapporto col Reale? Anticipiamo la risposta che andremo poi ad enucleare e tematizzare: la “compulsione a guardare” – unita alla confortante disponibilità dell’on demand – funziona, da una parte, come sintomo della concezione tardo-capitalistica del piacere, dall’altra, configura quello stesso piacere in termini di anedonia, dunque, sostanzialmente di non-piacere, o, nel migliore dei casi, di rimedio all’ansia del consumo, anche, culturale.

Psicoanalisi e televisione. Il Lessico amoroso di Massimo Recalcati, 2019

Intervento all'interno del volume Psicoanalisi e televisione. Il Lessico amoroso di Massimo Recal... more Intervento all'interno del volume Psicoanalisi e televisione. Il Lessico amoroso di Massimo Recalcati, il Melangolo, Genova 2019

Alice allo specchio. Deleuze, Carroll e la psicoanalisi, 2018

In questo volume l'opera di Gilles Deleuze Logica del senso è ripensata alla luce del rapporto tr... more In questo volume l'opera di Gilles Deleuze Logica del senso è ripensata alla luce del rapporto tra inconscio e linguaggio. Ciò si rende possibile in virtù della ridefinizione deleuziana della differenza, non più pensata in termini negativi e limitativi secondo la tradizione strutturalista. Tramite l'uso affermativo e illimitato della disgiunzione, l'inconscio diventa infatti il luogo del linguaggio paradossale, del nonsense che produce senso. L'esplorazione del retroterra teorico di Logica del senso si traduce in Alice allo specchio in un percorso che incrocia due prospettive: una versione psicoanalitica di Alice, ma anche una lettura della psicoanalisi attraverso Alice e il resto della produzione carrolliana. È al crocevia tra meccanismi psichici e paradossi logici che si situa infatti la teoria deleuziana del senso, sulla linea di confine tra inconscio e linguaggio, tra il profondo e la pelle.

Contributo al volume "L'immagine carnefice", a cura di Pierandrea Amato

La nostra è l’età del desiderio senza limiti. Economia del desiderio è una ricognizione delle mol... more La nostra è l’età del desiderio senza limiti.
Economia del desiderio è una ricognizione delle molteplici prospettive sul soggetto desiderante e sull’oggetto del desiderio, all’incrocio tra orizzonte filosofico e contributi psicanalitici. Se risulta ineludibile per la questione la figura di Deleuze, è necessario, per comprendere la portata del suo contributo, metterlo a confronto con l’eredità di Freud e Lacan, e con un ampio ventaglio di proposte teoriche nate nell’alveo della psicoanalisi, da Klein e Winnicott alla scuola britannica delle relazioni oggettuali, fino ai contributi originali di Balint e Suttie e alle provocatorie intuizioni di Žižek. In tre capitoli si snoda un viaggio concettuale attraverso i territori del Reale, del Simbolico e dell'Immaginario. Lungo questo percorso, narcisismo e aggressività, amore e odio, sono messi in gioco per tentare di tratteggiare una costellazione contemporanea del desiderio.