O EU EM TELA: cinema e psicanálise como elaboração da subjetividade

Abstract

This paper proposes a dialog between cinema and psychoanalysis, as it understands their symbolic dimensions and explores the similarities between the two areas. Using Lacan's concept of the mirror stage as a starting point, it discusses the extent to which the process of the constitution of the self based on identification with the mirror image can be associated with the spectator's identificatory relationship with the cinema screen. Based on this, this work undertakes to show how the subject's subjectivity can be elaborated and re-signified both by the fictional constitution of cinematographic projection and by psychoanalytic practice. The subject's experience in the movie theater allows them to be affected to the point where new perceptions, emotions or memories surface, just as in the analytical setting. Image and word correlate and give new meanings to human perception, externalizing in the individual what was hidden until then.