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Philosophy and Political science

December 19, 2025; Bologna, Italy: VIII International Scientific and Practical Conference «RICERCHE SCIENTIFICHE E METODI DELLA LORO REALIZZAZIONE: ESPERIENZA MONDIALE E REALTÀ DOMESTICHE»


AUTOGYNEPHILIA: DRESSING THE MOTHER'S CORPSE. SLIPKNOT, ED GEIN, AND YOUTUBE POP PSYCHOLOGY AS THREE IN THE MIRROR OF THE CAPITALIST UNCONSCIOUS


DOI
https://doi.org/10.36074/logos-19.12.2025.032
Published
19.12.2025

Abstract

This essay explores autogynephilia not as pathology but as a cultural formation, a symptom of late-capitalist subjectivity and its liquefied gender codes. Through a triangulation of Slipknot’s “Snuff”, Netflix’s Monster: The Ed Gein Story (2025), and the YouTube discourse of psychologist Veronika Stepanova, I argue that autogynephilia functions as a psychic rebellion against patriarchal realism — an erotics of identification that turns trauma into costume and desire into critique (Panasiuk, 2025). In the masculine wish to “become his wife” we find the specter of Marx’s alienation entwined with Freud’s death drive and the digital libido of the neoliberal self.

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