Journal de Etica y Cine

Volumen 09 | Nº 1

MARCH 2019
December 2018 - March 2019

The ambivalent search for the Lost Father

Hable con ella | Pedro Almodóvar | 2002

Training Institute for Mental Health, Estados Unidos

Abstract

This essay fills a gap in our understanding of Benigno by placing in sharper focus the internal location of "Men" and "Fathers" in his psychological life as illustrated by the film narrative. I will also touch upon Pedro Almodovar’s personal experience with men and " Fathers" given that hisown issues are somewhat reflected in the film. One caveat of course is that characters in a film are not always representative of he writer/director’s life; however, they inevitably are created out of the director/writers’s personal experience and illustrate his or her conflicts, interests and illusions, directly or obliquely. What we express are always aspects of who we are or wish we were.

Key Words: Father as "Third" | hope | Lost | Fantasy

This article is, for the time being, only available in Spanish: La búsqueda ambivalente del Padre Perdido

NOTAS

Editorial Editorial
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Tamburrini by Caetano: from testimony to horror film Crónica de una fuga | Israel Adrián Caetano | 2006
Malvinas, the war that never ends Soldado Argentino sólo conocido por Dios | Fernández Engler | 2017
Film review Freud in the cinema: from the sublime to the ridiculous Eduardo Laso y Juan Jorge Michel Fariña | 2019
Film advance America: the topicality of trauma Pachamama | Juan Antín | 2018

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.

The ambivalent search for the Lost Father

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