Journal de Etica y Cine

Volumen 14 | N° 1

Cultural trauma and violence in contemporary Mexico

Los parecidos | Isaac Ezban | 2015
Andrés Téllez Parra

Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Abstract

The article briefly reviews the way in which the concept of trauma, originally elaborated in psychoanalysis, has been taken up by the social sciences under the term social or cultural trauma, as well as by film studies, in order to use it to analyze the way in which two traumatic events in contemporary Mexican history, namely, the massacre of students in the Plaza de las Tres Culturas in Mexico City on October 2, 1968, and the forced disappearance of 43 students from the "Raúl Isidro Burgos" Rural Normal School in Ayotzinapa on the night of September 26, 2014, are reworked in Isaac Ezban’s film Los parecidos, in the context of the violence generated by organized crime in contemporary Mexican society.

Keywords: cultural trauma | mexican cinema | terror | violence

This article is, for the time being, only available in Spanish: Trauma cultural y violencia en el México contemporáneo
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Etica y Cine (Ethics & Films) is a Peer Reviewed Quarterly Journal Edited by
Department of Psychoanalysis and Department of Deontology, School of Psychology, National University of Cordoba, Argentina
Department of Psychology, Ethics and Human Rights, School of Psychology, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
With the collaboration of:
Center for Medical Ethics (CME), Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Norway
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The International Network of the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics.

Cultural trauma and violence in contemporary Mexico

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