@article{ref1,
title="Two faces of Thanatos: Broken flowers (2005) and Ai no corrida (1976)1",
journal="International journal of psycho-analysis",
year="2007",
author="Minerbo, Marion",
volume="88",
number="3",
pages="777-790",
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.<p />",
language="",
issn="0020-7578",
doi="10.1516/35U6-75XU-4345-740L",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1516/35U6-75XU-4345-740L"
}