Dr. CHAN Kit Sze, AmyAmyDr. CHAN Kit Sze2020-09-222020-09-222019In Sholtz, J. & Carr, C. L. (eds.). (2019). Deleuze and the schizoanalysis of feminism (pp. 177-192). New York: Bloomsbury.9781350080423http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11861/5965In Anti-Oedipus, Deleuze and Guattari claim that psychoanalysis assumes that all behavior is either manifestly sexual or a substitute for sex. Psychoanalysis “insists on filtering everything through the triangulating lens of daddy-mommy-me” (Buchanan 2008: 39). They argue that the family is the agent of Oedipalization. Deleuze and Guattari suggest further that Oedipalization is closely related to capitalism since the nuclear family imprints capitalist social relations on the infant psyche. In a way, there is a triangulation here: nuclear family, Oedipalization, and capitalism. The focus of this chapter is to discuss how Deleuze and Guattari’s theory of schizophrenia, especially in relation to family and Oedipalization, sheds light on the development of feminism in the Anthropocene. The thrust of this paper is to bring an important figure in Chinese culture, that is, Bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara into the scene. The Oedipus Complex, no matter that Freud argued for it as a universal concept, is unarguably a product of the western culture. I would argue that it’s time for us to look to other non-Western traditions to imagine ways to construct a new postcapitalist world order that addresses the Anthropocene. Moreover, Avalokiteśvara is a powerful symbol to deterritorialize Western epistemic imperialism, intertwined as it is with this particular constellation of gender and capitalism. Bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara, being a Bodhisattva with both female and male manifestations and portrayals, blurs the gender boundary; being personified as much a human as a god/goddess, Avalokiteśvara also breaks down the boundary between human and nonhuman; having empathy and kinship with animals and plants, Avalokiteśvara exemplifies Haraway’s concept of becoming-with. Haraway has argues that cyborg is a symbol for future feminisms but I would argue that Bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara offers more potentials for navigating the complexities and inequities that confront women on a global scale, especially those who are particularly marginalized or isolated by and through modern technology and capitalism, than Haraway’s cyborg—as a symbol for the posthuman future as well as a symbol for the feminist in the Anthropocene....enBook Chapter10.5040/9781350080447.ch-010