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This article considers whether psychotic experience can have a radical or transformative effect on the category of the subject. Using Lacanian theory, I examine Richard Kelly's 2001 film Donnie Darko is examined, in order to consider the extent to which the space of psychosis allows for a more radical form of agency, and whether the act of ‘choosing’ psychosis can have positive and meaningful effects on a restrictive and destructive symbolic matrix.