Abstract

WEINMANN, Amadeu de Oliveira. The enunciation of femininity in Hitchcock's Rebecca. Trivium [online]. 2016, vol.8, n.1, pp.60-73. ISSN 2176-4891.  https://doi.org/10.18379/2176-4891.2016v1p.60.

The article aims to outline the way the enunciation of femininity emerges in Hitchcock's "Rebecca". Having this objective in mind, the empirical matter is not only the filmic narrative but also two aspects from the context it is part of: Hitchcockian filmography and woman's film of the 1940s. Our working hypothesis is that, through its protagonist, "Rebecca" enacts the trajectory of a woman towards symbolic inscription. On the other hand, the character Rebecca embodies things in femininity that insist in not inscribing themselves, an excess of joy that connects to the filmic discourse through what the philosopher Slavoj Zizec calls Hitchcockian "sinthome".

Keywords : PSYCHOANALYSIS; CINEMA; FEMININITY; REBECCA; HITCHCOCK.

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