Abstract

WEINMANN, Amadeu de Oliveira; MEDEIROS, Roberto Henrique Amorim de  and  MANO, Gustavo Caetano de Mattos. God is dead: Long live the automaton!. Estud. pesqui. psicol. [online]. 2017, vol.17, n.1, pp. 225-237. ISSN 1808-4281.

The article proposes to address an issue from Modernity pathos - the passion for the automaton -, in the light of Nietzschian Death of God concept. In this sense, it analyses two science fiction classic movies: 2001: a space odyssey, by Stanley Kubrick, and Blade runner, by Ridley Scott. If passion for the automaton consists in a form of the modern subject to deny finitude, in the films here discussed such condition is elaborated in a very peculiar way. 2001 and Blade runner offer the spectator the possibility of resisting the assumption of such tendency of modern subjectivity. In 2001, the automaton is too human and a tragic narrative promotes another way of tackling finitude. In Blade runner, the automaton is the bearer of fundamental anguishes of the modern subject - origin and finitude - and by identifying with him the viewer is allowed to go beyond man.

Keywords : psychoanalysis; cinema; death of God; finitude; automaton.

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