The subject of the thesis is the (post)deconstructionist critique of the male subjectivity represented in the oeuvre of the Russian-born El Kazovsky, with special regard to the traditional transsexual (meta)narrative of the “wrong body” and the (hegemonic) masculinity that governs it. The “wrong body” paradigm is looked upon not only as a reconfiguration of the metaphysical subject structure that dualizes body and spirit (in favor of the latter), but also as a biopolitical
apparatus that puts the body under the tyranny of the spirit (or soul), and from the point of view of the economy of death, I also interpret it as a liminal case of self-destruction of autoimmunity, which is paradoxically necessary and inevitable for identification, subjectivation, for a life that opens up to alterity. The limits of biopolitically governed embodiment and representation can open the horizon of death. Relying on poststructuralist
theoretical foundations, I define the dominant scheme of saturated male (post)subjectivity examined in Kazovsky’s oeuvre as carnophallogocentric hegemonic masculinity.