Journal de Etica y Cine

Volumen 14 | N° 1

Psychoanalytic notes on memory in first-person documentary cinema

Juan Carlos Hernández Arreygue, Martín Jacobo Jacobo

Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo

Abstract

This paper seeks to make some remarks on the theoretical impressions that psychoanalysis has developed on memory, insofar as it has an affinity with the unconscious. This with the purpose of expanding the referential framework in which first-person documentary filmmakers work, since a large number of these works have focused on creating personal audiovisual narratives where their memories are the launching point to talk about events that have become traumatic. This results in works loaded with affection, questions and meanings that, in our opinion, are channeled by unconscious determinations. For this we will briefly develop the classical conception of what has been catalogued as documentary cinema and then what is documentary cinema in the first person. We will also use some examples of first-person documentaries that can give us some clues that when working with the intimate, we can find unconscious activity.

Keywords: Psychoanalysis | first-person documentary film | documentary film | memory | unconscious

This article is, for the time being, only available in Spanish: Apuntes psicoanalíticos sobre la memoria en el cine documental en primera persona

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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
Under the auspicious of:
The International Network of the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics.

Psychoanalytic notes on memory in first-person documentary cinema

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