Journal de Etica y Cine

Volumen 03 | Nro 1

MARCH 2013

Ben X: Notes about the statute of the truth and the singular of suffering

Ben X | Nic Balthazar | 2007

Abstract

The film Ben X (Nic Balthazar, 2007) approaches us to the autism’s problematic and to the virtual space as a new bond scene. One of the possible lectures about the film let us wonder about the possibilities that a video game can provides to hook up to the Other and which particular use can it has.
This article analyzes the movie taking as main idea the pairing reality-fiction, and from that point on, the question about the statute of the truth. On the other hand, put on the spotlight the ethical problem about how to place the singular dimension of subjective suffering.

Key words: Reality | Fiction | Truth

This article is, for the time being, only available in Spanish: Ben X: Apuntes sobre el estatuto de la verdad y lo singular del sufrimiento

NOTAS

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TIME: the woman, man’s sculpture Time | Kim Ki Duk | 2006
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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.

Ben X: Notes about the statute of the truth and the singular of suffering

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