Resumen

LOTFI, Glória. Black Eyes: One man’s struggle against the fascination of “not being”. Junguiana [online]. 2024, vol.42, e11.  Epub 17-Mar-2025. ISSN 2595-1297.  https://doi.org/10.70435/junguiana.v42.113.

A study of the process of individuation within Nikita Mikhalkov’s film Black Eyes (1987), considering marriage and family relationships. The author explores the theme of incest from the Jungian point of view of diving deep within oneself to retrieve the most valuable treasures of the human being. This journey is often doomed to failure and to remaining in an infantile ego stage, weakening the hero and transforming him into the “lover child”. The process of individuation requires a constant struggle against the allure of dissolving into the whole, the siren song that destroys so many heroes. Aspects of the myth of Narcissus are used to deal with the theme of marriage as a relationship of otherness. The necessary confrontation with the shadow, a crucial moment in life, is focused on.

Palabras llave : matriarchal complex; patriarchal order; hero buffoon; puer x puella; anima; Self; individuation process.

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