Abstract

Starting from the known Lacanian slogan "artists are ahead of us", this paper analyzes various psychoanalytic concepts extracted from the film "head-on" (Akin, F., 2004), a film done by the celebrated Turkish - German director Fatih Akin.
Notions such as "segregation ", "acting out", "passage to the act", "sense of life", "reinvention of the Other" and "sinthomatic Love" will be explored from the passionate and crazy love story, so destructive as constructive, starring by Cahit (Birol Ünel) and Sibel (Sibel Kekilli). Two excessive, angry and frenetic characters, who agreeing to a marriage for convenience will achieve to restrict the joy (jouissance) that pushes them to death. In that sham marriage they will end finding a love that, even being possessive and maddening, will accomplish that this deadly condescend joy (jouissance) reaches the field of desire.
Fatih Akin teaches us, in a forceful way, how love, even the most unworthy, can play a role of subjective knotting.

Key words: segregation | acting out | passage to the act | sense of life | reinvention of the Other | sinthome