Fight Club: Radical Sufferings and Contemporary Society

This paper derives from a psychoanalytical piece of research about an important clinical phenomenon that articulates depersonalization and derealization, which, according to Winnicott, are known as the “inability to feel alive and real”. This is a typical phenomenon found in borderline and psychotic...

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Main Authors: Ana Carla Silvares Pompêo de Camargo Arós, Tânia Maria José Aiello Vaisberg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie 2009-07-01
Series:Psicologia
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Online Access:http://editorarevistas.mackenzie.br/index.php/ptp/article/view/1654/1218
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description This paper derives from a psychoanalytical piece of research about an important clinical phenomenon that articulates depersonalization and derealization, which, according to Winnicott, are known as the “inability to feel alive and real”. This is a typical phenomenon found in borderline and psychotic clinical profiles, the manifestations of which have demonstrated to be frequent in contemporary society. The analytical object in use was a psychoanalytical narrative employed in the movie picture known as Fight club understood as a fictional human event. Seven diverse fields were created/found as parts of a greater field – “to be or not to be”. By establishing a dialogue with Winnicott and Bauman, it was possible to conclude that the clinical issue in question is intimately concerned with the new forms of organizing the liquid-modern society, which paradoxically develop a certain type of individualism while they make it hard to personal growth in a sense of developing one’s ability of feeling alive, real and able to provide spontaneous gesture to transform the self and the world.
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spelling doaj.art-d575665fe689465086f1e4400504dd242023-10-09T17:31:40ZengUniversidade Presbiteriana MackenziePsicologia1516-36871980-69062009-07-01112316Fight Club: Radical Sufferings and Contemporary SocietyAna Carla Silvares Pompêo de Camargo Arós0Tânia Maria José Aiello Vaisberg1Faculdade de AmericanaPontifícia Universidade Católica de CampinasThis paper derives from a psychoanalytical piece of research about an important clinical phenomenon that articulates depersonalization and derealization, which, according to Winnicott, are known as the “inability to feel alive and real”. This is a typical phenomenon found in borderline and psychotic clinical profiles, the manifestations of which have demonstrated to be frequent in contemporary society. The analytical object in use was a psychoanalytical narrative employed in the movie picture known as Fight club understood as a fictional human event. Seven diverse fields were created/found as parts of a greater field – “to be or not to be”. By establishing a dialogue with Winnicott and Bauman, it was possible to conclude that the clinical issue in question is intimately concerned with the new forms of organizing the liquid-modern society, which paradoxically develop a certain type of individualism while they make it hard to personal growth in a sense of developing one’s ability of feeling alive, real and able to provide spontaneous gesture to transform the self and the world. http://editorarevistas.mackenzie.br/index.php/ptp/article/view/1654/1218baumanfight clubpsychoanalysispsychosiswinnicott
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title Fight Club: Radical Sufferings and Contemporary Society
title_full Fight Club: Radical Sufferings and Contemporary Society
title_fullStr Fight Club: Radical Sufferings and Contemporary Society
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title_short Fight Club: Radical Sufferings and Contemporary Society
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winnicott
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