TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2007//
TI  - Two faces of Thanatos: Broken flowers (2005) and Ai no corrida (1976)1
JO  - International journal of psycho-analysis
A1  - Minerbo, Marion
SP  - 777
EP  - 790
VL  - 88
IS  - 3
N2  - 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 /> 
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SN  - 0020-7578
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1516/35U6-75XU-4345-740L
ID  - ref1
ER  -