ABSTRACT
Through a symptomatological reading of the film Being John Malkovich (1999, dir. S. Jonze), the chapter considers masculine subjectivity thrown into a vertiginous process of becoming-other. I posit a becoming-puppet as a heuristic device to explore the representational limits of the traditional metaphysics of being and established mode of experience. Focusing on the intermediary essence of becoming, which is accentuated in the narrative through numerous images of the in-between, the chapter analyzes the transformational nature of sensibility, emphasizing its infinitely variable limits. In creating an impossible artistic vision, the film engenders masculinity as a potentiality, recast as an intensive and desiring series of individuations.
