Abstract

MINERBO, Marion. Changing the subjective position towards corruption: An analysis of the film On the Waterfront. J. psicanal. [online]. 2016, vol.49, n.91, pp. 63-73. ISSN 0103-5835.

The author understands corruption as a process that is produced and perpetuated in the intersection of three psychic spaces: a) individual, in which a subject with strong paranoid traits holds a position of power; b) intersubjective, in which the person who holds power "goes crazy" with the help of people with whom he/she gets along; c) transsubjective, in which the disqualification of law is established and becomes a culture. The author uses the film On the Waterfront (Kazan, 1954) as "clinical material" whose analysis shows the deconstruction of this process. She concludes that, as in the psychoanalytic process, the "cure" of this social pathology is based on transference with a figure who embodies law. This transference allows social actors to change their subjective position.

Keywords : corruption; psychic determinations; social pathology; subjective position.

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