Abstract

MEDEIROS, Gabriel Silva  and  ALCANTARA, Patrícia Ferreira. Devil's Bride: Psychoanalysis between Cinema and History. Analytica [online]. 2022, vol.11, n.20, pp. 1-19. ISSN 2316-5197.

This paper takes as its object, the film "Devil's Bride", by Saara Cantell, based on the witches' judgments in Aland, Finland, in 1666, according to a Lacanian perspective, in a historiographic scope. This work aims to establish points of dialogue between the cinematographic work, historical facts, and the medieval Zeitgeist. The artistic production, for Freud and Lacan, always allowed a different way to write the object. The research was qualitative, using an exploratory method and the bibliographic review of articles, books and texts in psychoanalysis and history. Initially, considerations were made about the notion of heresy, which is opposed to "for all" as a universal proposition. With an analytical perspective, certain legal procedures about the Church against heretics were evaluated. Furthermore, fragments of historical documents were revisited to clarify misogynist structures, typical of inquisitorial subjectivity. To do so, we appealed to the significant-meaning categories, to the cinematography - how it plays with the reality projecting it onto a screen - and, to the dialectic between the creator and his work, agreed by Lacan, when he addresses, in the Ethics seminar, the Catharism. Forward, considering the graph of sexuation, the issue of female jouissance was examined, a theme presented in the film that signals an alterity rejected in the time course. Finally, some passages from Malleus Maleficarum were considered, concluding that the real jouissance is a transhistorical element, while history, as a significant construction, relates with the truth. The hate against women, constantly reiterated in the book The Hammer of the Witches, reflects the defense of tout homme against the singularity of the symptom.

Keywords : Devil's Bride; Psychoanalysis; Cinema; History.

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