101. “Der Mime wurde doppelt erfüllt.” On Hubert Fichte’s Bi-Orgasmology.
- Author
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Breitrück, Stefan
- Subjects
FEMALE orgasm ,FORM perception ,CONSCIOUSNESS ,LOSS of consciousness ,BISEXUAL people ,REFLEXIVITY - Abstract
The paper argues that the erotology within Hubert Fichte’s novels, as it has been formulated by Gert Mattenklott, can be complemented by a bi-orgasmology. On the basis of selected passages, it shows how Fichte’s bisexual protagonist, the writer and ethnographer Jäcki, stylizes the orgasmic moment as a state of distinguished epistemic quality with regard to the world and the other, being characterized by, first, a partial suspension of the I and, second, a specific epistemic double rhythm, oscillating between consciousness and unconsciousness, reflexivity and irreflexivity. As an ideal, the female orgasm scintillates on the epistemological firmament, as it is described by Jäcki’s lifelong partner Irma in Hotel Garni; an orgasmic form of perception which Jäcki approximates in the course of an orgy in Eine Glückliche Liebe, precisely because he simultaneously adopts penetration roles that are conventionally encoded as male and female within the heteronormative matrix. The forms of perception in this decidedly bisexual scene eventually become the blueprint for how Jäcki wants to conduct his research in the field of the syncretistic religions of the Americas: reflexive-irreflexive, both a registrar and a participant, balancing between the own and the other. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Published
- 2023