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Deviants, Dissidents, Perverts: Chile Post Pinochet

Blanco, Fernando A.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1244262894

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2009, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Spanish and Portuguese.
In this work, I propose a critical reading of contemporary Chilean culture in line with. I claim that the current state of the arts is a partial one because it does not address the paradigm of non normative sexuality as it has been claimed by Queer Studies, particularly by M.Warner, challenging social theory, and by Lacanian psychoanalysis in the readings of Zizek and Fink. In the Latin American tradition, I argue with two lines of thought and their definition of culture. The genealogy of Ortiz, Rama, Cornejo Polar and the trend sustained by García Canclini, Barbero and Laclau. I claim that sexuality is a dimension of social life that needs to be reflected upon in order to understand its impact in the formation of contemporary regimes of sexual and cultural domination. Perversion in this context provides us with a theoretical model in which a specific set of pleasures can at same time, sustain and threaten the law. Thus perversion can be understood as a cover up construct that has been used to define normative life. In the dialectic reading I do, shared fantasy is not individual but collective, and it is provided by an economic and philosophical framework generated by liberal thought which perversion uncovers. In Chile in the last fifteen years, the overexposure of intimacy and the reiteration of sexual crimes (pedophilia, fetishism, homosexuality and others) are evident symptoms of the perversion of the social bond. The aesthetic/cultural scene also shares this imprint throughout the symbolic figure of perversion and the narratives of jouissance embodied in paraphilias.
Ileana Rodriguez, PhD (Committee Chair)
Ignacio Corona, PhD (Committee Member)
Laura Podalsky, PhD (Committee Member)
Brian Warnick, PhD (Committee Member)
209 p.
Latin American Literature
Culture; sexuality; intimacy; neoliberalism; perversion; memory; dictatorship; Chile

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  • Blanco, F. A. (2009). Deviants, Dissidents, Perverts: Chile Post Pinochet [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1244262894

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Blanco, Fernando. Deviants, Dissidents, Perverts: Chile Post Pinochet. 2009. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1244262894.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Blanco, Fernando. "Deviants, Dissidents, Perverts: Chile Post Pinochet." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1244262894

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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