The Lost Daughter or what cinema can teach us of the ominous infantile and the rejection of the feminine in speaking beings
La Hija Oscura | Maggy Gyleenhall | 2021
Luciana Szrank

Centro de Investigación y Estudios Clínicos (CIEC)

Abstract

This work is based on the fiction of “The Lost Daughter”, an original novel written by Elena Ferrante and adapted for film by director Maggy Gyleenhall. From the interpretations that this film presents, a development is made around the concept of the ominous raised by Freud and taken up by Lacan in his teaching, specified in his Seminar on anxiety. Furthermore, this essay works in relation to the generalized rejection that occurs in speaking beings regarding the feminine, beyond gender. And about the discursive burdens that speaking bodies go through as well as the different positions/outputs with which they deal with desire, enjoyment and the impossible to say. Likewise, we work on the complexity inherent to motherhood, mother-daughter relationships and the uniqueness of parents.

Keywords: The ominous | the feminine | speaking bodies | departures | enjoyment | desire

This article is, for the time being, only available in Spanish: La Hija Oscura o lo que el cine puede enseñarnos de lo ominoso infantil y del rechazo a lo femenino en los seres hablantes


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Volumen 13 | Nº 3

NOVEMBER 2023
November 2023 - February 2024

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