%0 Journal Article
%T Two faces of Thanatos: Broken flowers (2005) and Ai no corrida (1976)1
%J International journal of psycho-analysis
%D 2007
%A Minerbo, Marion
%V 88
%N 3
%P 777-790
%X 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 />
%G 
%I John Wiley and Sons
%@ 0020-7578
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.1516/35U6-75XU-4345-740L