Identificação e imagem: uma leitura psicanalítica do seriado Black Mirror

Abstract

Based on the assumption that art testimonies the spirit of a time, this article exposes briefly the concepts of identification and image, both articulated to theepisode White Bear (2013),of the acclaimed series Black Mirror,exhibited as part of the Extension Project Cine Freud, Cultura e Arte in 2017.1. The methodology was organizedby the episode analysis, by the elements focused on the debate,and by bibliographic research. The hypothesis raised along is that the episode exposes the appeal to the imagein the current social functioning. Appeal that was discussed to its unfolding and to what sent us to the logic of the functioning of amyth. It was noticed that the debordian critique around the notion of "historical" could be articulated to aspects of psychoanalysis ethical proposition in its relation to the emergence of the subject. The subject itself, here, is situated at the rupture zone face the specular logic, pointing to the irreducible character of the alterity.