Abstract

CARRA, Thales Andrés. From myth to reality show: Procusto and the Big Brother. J. psicanal. [online]. 2019, vol.52, n.96, pp. 213-223. ISSN 0103-5835.

This paper compares Procusto myth with Big Brother Brazil TV show using psychoanalytic discourse. It was observed that, like Procusto, the reality show is about practices and rituals of suffering for elimination of differences, self fortification, and sadism porpouses. The contestants are usually submitted to exhaustive prolonged tasks, humiliation, and suffering actions similars to the practices performed by Procusto on his torturing and annihilating bed. This TV program has shown itself as a mean to discharge aggressive drives that must be renounced for culture, such as cruelty and the desire to kill. However, not as a sublimated form, but as an imperative of satisfaction over real bodies that seems to be fictional - mere contestants of a television show.

Keywords : sadism; narcissism; aggression.

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