Abstract

SORDI, Bárbara Araújo; LEVY, Elizabeth Samuel  and  CORREA, Hevellyn Ciely da Silva. Arkangel: on devastation in the mother and daughter relationship in cybernetic times. Estud. psicanal. [online]. 2020, n.53, pp. 119-128. ISSN 0100-3437.

Black Mirror is a British fiction series about contemporary society that, in an ironic and catastrophic way, debates about bioethics, in the face of possible technological advances and their psychic effects. In the episode “Arkangel”, presenting in the fourth season of the series, Marie, concerned about her daughter's safety, uses a state-of-the-art device to monitor her location, a kind of chip, a fact that subsequently worsens in the face of the emergence of puberty. this, that is, in view of her position as a woman who awakens. Based on fragments of the episode, this article addresses the issue of devastation in the mother-daughter relationship. Turning to the psychoanalytic concept of femininity, from the Freudian texts, and of the feminine in Lacan's teaching, the consequences of a jouissance that is not inscribed in language at all and that, faced with the impossibility of love, finds itself in devastation, a way to be realized.

Keywords : Black Mirror; Psychoanalysis; Femininity; Devastation; Maternity.

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