Abstract

Brick, one of the characters of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (R. Brooks, 1958), show us the sadness and its consequences, such as Lacan places it like soul’s passion, following the ethical tradition, into the philosophical and religious dimensions. Overwhelmed for the guilty for his friend and for the jealousy to his wife, plus his love’s frustration in relation to his father, he ends suffering a deep sadness. Guilty, jealousy and love’s frustration are the coordinates that keeps a way to enjoy in him, far away of the responsibility for the subconscious signification of itch one of this complications in his life.
The sadness is consequence of a way to relationship to the lack, from him and from the Other: a lack of consent to the lack, whatever should be combine, causing no symptom and can be a metaphoric treatment of the subconscious. Brick accuses his father, demands his father, he plays a role of a castrated man for his father, of impotent. He makes his father feels his failure. In that position stay locked in the place of a soon that wait from his father the keys to manage in life.

Key words: Sadness | Passions of the soul | hainamouration