The other in the mirror: "Amour" by Michael Haneke

  • Sergio García Guillem Université Paris VIII
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_ARAB.2015.v15.n2.45214
Keywords: Amour, Michael Haneke, death, illness, lucidity, Heimlich/Unheimlich, psychoanalysis

Abstract

The last film of Michael Haneke’s, Amour (2012), offers us a lucid and despaired poetics of this last human station that implies the oldness and the corporeal decomposition, but also a beautiful and sad narrative on this paradoxical phenomenon that is the love between two human beings. Through the critical device of a ci­nematographic device, together with the psychoanalytic critique, in this case through the Freudian binomial Heimlich/Unheimlich, we will try to display a possible interpretation of the hanekian film.

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Sergio García Guillem, Université Paris VIII
Estudiante del Máster de Filosofía y Críticas Contemporáneas de la Cultura (Philosophie et critiques contemporaines de la culture)

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Published
2015-06-30
How to Cite
García Guillem S. (2015). The other in the mirror: "Amour" by Michael Haneke. Área Abierta. Revista de comunicación audiovisual y publicitaria, 15(2), 19-34. https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_ARAB.2015.v15.n2.45214
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Vol. 15 No. 2 (2015)
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