CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2021
| Author | Bochkov, Dmitrii |
|---|---|
| Title | Sound as Libido: Conceptualizing Cases of Theremin, Cochlear Implant and Percussion Instruments |
| Summary | In the domain of social research, sounds are generally analyzed as being embedded in the set of social and cultural references. In its turn, sound studies theory proposes a phenomenological solution of analyzing sounds as non-discursive affects. Since both “sociologized sound” and “sound-affect” put the subject in a passive position towards the sonorous, this theoretical research seeks a methodological alternative, “sound-libido”. While being immersed in the perspectives of Pierre Bourdieu and Jacques Lacan on libido, I deploy their epistemological optics to re-sociologize sound in the context of social situations. The social situations I explore with interviewing as well as participant and non-participant observation are constituted by different sonic objects, such as the theremin, cochlear implants, and percussion instruments. Inside the embracing sonic structure of the performance, classes for children with CI, and musical improvisations, there is an epistemological bifurcation into social and libidinal situations. It is explained by the implicit conflict of the field and the Other. Through these tensions, I reconfigure Bourdieu’s conceptual differentiation of “biological libido” and “social libido” by Lacan’s perspectives of alienation and separation. Both in sociological and psychoanalytic paradigms, libido reflects not only the lack but also the subject's relations with the Other. On the level of the sonic situation, this Bourdieuian- Lacanian epistemological model can grasp the de-sociologized phenomenon of “sound-libido” through Venn’s diagrams. |
| Supervisor | Fabiani, Jean-Louis; Steinmetz, George |
| Department | Sociology MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2021/bochkov_dmitrii.pdf |
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