The girl of the bubbles
The undoing | David E. Kelley | 2020
Ludmila Malischevski

Escuela de Orientación Lacaniana-AMP, Universidad Nacional de San Martín

Abstract

In his text: “The Ominous” Freud asks how is it possible that the familiar becomes ominous, terrifying, and under what conditions does it occur. To answer this question I will use a North American TV show called The undoing. The plot is about the story of a psychologist of couples who has been married for many years to a child oncologist and they have a son. Her happy and peaceful life is shattered when a woman is murdered and the main suspect is her husband. The protagonist not only finds out that her husband was cheating on her but that he could also be a murderer. The familiar becomes strange and disturbing. The series testifies about the emergence of this dimension for each of the characters and about what they do in the face of anguish.

Keywords: ominous | anguish | family | strange | scotoma | deception

This article is, for the time being, only available in Spanish: La niña de las burbujas


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Volumen 13 | Nº 3

NOVEMBER 2023
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