The Imageless Image: Challenging Presuppositions and Generating Political Escape

The concept of the imageless image emerges in the book as a feminist critique of patriarchal control. Inspired by Marguerite Porett and Deluz's wife, Fanny, it explores the idea of allulatory fantasies that resist the dominant psychoanalytic framework. The imageless image challenges the notion that images should conform to a pre-existing edifice of interpretation and individuation, instead proposing that they can be insurgent and offer lines of flight out of the system. Rejecting the idea of images as mere reflections or representations, the concept encourages a rethinking of psychoanalysis and its capitalization of images and fantasies. By reconsidering the role of images and the ways they compel us, the imageless image opens up possibilities for political escape and subversion.