ABSTRACT:
How can some film productions feed the debate on the psychoanalytical notions of trauma? We analyze two films by Clint Eastwood, “Mystic River” and “American Sniper” based on the psychoanalytic view of trauma. As a working method, we resume the concepts of narcissism of minor differences, trauma, speech as an event, event and event break-up to call into question binary opposition and ego-referenced thinking that can reinforce stereotypes and prejudices that hinder the mobility and transformation of traumatic events in thrusts toward life. Our intention is to deconstruct some speeches guiding contemporary culture and to contribute to clinical-political psychoanalytic interventions.
Keywords:
trauma; event; cinema; psychoanalysis; politics