3 Undoing the Parent-Function: The Metaphysics and Politics of a Deleuzian Child

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I: Deleuze and Children
6. 1 Deleuze, Guattari and Partial Objects 13
7. 2 Little Hans and Pedagogies of Heterosexuality 29
8. 3 Undoing the Parent-Function: The Metaphysics and Politics of a Deleuzian Child 47
9. 4 Beyond Surface Articulation: Alice and the Hermunculus 64
10. Part II: Children and Deleuze
11. 5 Pathways through the Labyrinth: Deleuze’s Gothic Child in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining (1980) 89
12. 6 ‘Just Tell Them I’m a Chipmunk’: Transgender Children and the Breach in the Oedipal Gender Assemblage 110
13. 7 Affective Atmospheres: Joy, Ethics and the Howl of Children and Young People’s (A)Sexuality 128
14. 8 Affect, Play and Becoming-Musicking 145
15. 9 Temporalities of Children’s Literature: Chronos, Aion and Incorporeal Ageing 162
16. 10 Deleuze, Children and Worlding 179
17. 11 Child, Baby, Embryo, Brain, Monster 196
18. Notes on Contributors 211
19. Index 214