Journal de Etica y Cine

Volumen 10 | Nº 1

MARCH 2020

Mourning the Self: Treatment of the Unrepresentable Dimension of the Reality of Death in Cinema

Mélancolie | Lars von Trier | 2011 - Juste La Fin Du Monde | Terry Misseraoui | 2017

Université Aix-Marseille

Abstract

Our research called “Melancholy and Mourning” deals with issues related to the representation of self-mourning in the cinema. Indeed, films of great aesthetics deal with the apocalypse and are at the origin of contemporary philosophical issues. What do these directors want to show when they look at the painful question of the end, of death, of the irreversibility of time? Why do they all counterbalance the points of horror contained in this deadly dead end with sublime images of beauty ? Does this mean that the death of one, of all, cannot be represented? Or rather, more profoundly, does this mean that the death announced cannot be apprehended? However, Lars Von Trier and Xavier Dolan unmask in a certain way this "real" of the announced death or the shortage of time, notably through Melancholia (2011) and Juste La Fin Du Monde (2016).

This article is, for the time being, only available in French: Le deuil de soi : traitement de la dimension irreprésentable du réel de la mort au cinéma and Spanish Melancolía y duelo. El duelo de sí mismo: tratamiento de la dimensión irrepresentable de lo real de la muerte en el cine

NOTAS

Editorial Editorial
Put politics, ethics and aesthetics in crisis Saló or the 120 days of Sodom, by Pasolini | 1975
The gaze by the camera / Cinema, puberty scenes and juvenile sexual theories
The Battle of Chile: image, poetry, memory The nostalgie of the lumiere | Patricio Guzmán | 2010
Dolan’s trilogy: two or three? Xavier Dolan | I killed my mother | 2009 | Heartbeats | 2010 | Laurence anyways | 2012
Live without founding. Politics and psychoanalysis, again We | Tristan García | Original publisher: Grasset
A knife is born at the heart. Gaspar Noé: filmmaker of a contemporary social? The tragedy of a man (alone) in the tragedy of the century. Alone against all | Gaspar Noé | 1998
Cinema as a passer of the real L’envahisseur | Nicolas Provost | Bélgica 2011
Frida Kalho: the look of cinema Frida, naturaleza viva | Paul Leduc, 1983 | Frida | Julie Taymor, 2002
Reflections on the Me Too movement and its philosophy

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.

Mourning the Self: Treatment of the Unrepresentable Dimension of the Reality of Death in Cinema

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