This thesis examines whether psychoanalysis and schizoanalysis, after years of diverging paths, can converge in specific areas to generate new insights. To facilitate a dialogue between...Show moreThis thesis examines whether psychoanalysis and schizoanalysis, after years of diverging paths, can converge in specific areas to generate new insights. To facilitate a dialogue between psychoanalysis and schizoanalysis, three specific films associated with Charlie Kaufman will be utilized: Synecdoche, New York, I’m Thinking of Ending Things, and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. These works of Kaufman will serve as a ‘third philosophical voice’. The psychoanalytic and schizoanalytic methods will not only provide new insights into Kaufman’s work. By allowing the films to speak for themselves, they also shed light on the connection between psychoanalysis and schizoanalysis through the subjects that the films themselves explore.Show less
