title: Two faces of Thanatos: Broken flowers (2005) and Ai no corrida (1976).
abstract: Since Freud formulated the death instinct concept, it has received widely diverse interpretations. Even Freud advanced two versions. The concomitant analyses of two films, "Ai no Corrida" (1976) [ In the realm of the senses (1977)] and "Broken Flowers" (2005) evince Thanatos's two faces: the cold death of decathexis of an object, in the case of Don (in "Broken Flowers" ) and the hot death of the subject-object fusion in Sada's case ("Ai no Corrida"). In our analysis, we elaborate two possible vicissitudes of the death instinct: in "Broken Flowers" , the main character finds an 'analyst' and is cured. In "Ai no Corrida", the protagonist meets a complementary object and goes mad.
authors.affiliation: Rua Alcides Pertiga 78, Pinheiros, São Paulo, SP 05413-100, Brazil. marion.minerbo@terra.com.br
authors.forename: Marion
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Minerbo
mesh_terms: D001293:Attitude to Death; D006801:Humans; D008512:Medicine in the Arts; D009040:Motion Pictures; D011573:Psychoanalytic Interpretation