I, 'Madman': An Autosomatography of Schizoaffective Disorder and Mad Subjectivity

Abstract

This paper is a learning of schizoaffective disorder through the lenses of slasher-cinema studies literature, subjectivity camera theory, and Mad Studies. The author imports wholesale the language of slasher-cinema studies to help articulate his schizoaffective stories through an autosomatography. He recommends that the slasher subgenre of horror can be a progressive text to assist schizoaffective sufferers with understanding aspects of their schizo-symptomologies.

Keywords

• Autosomatography
• mental illness
• Mad Studies
• cinema studies
• slasher films