Acting: The mise en abyss in cinema as a resource of the analytical clinic by Michel Fariña, Juan Jorge, Laso, Eduardo

Subjects: Get full text

The missed opportunity. Comment to The lost daughter by Laso, Eduardo

“…The film can be read as a criticism to the social commandment addressed to women to dedicate themselves as wives and mothers. …”
Get full text

Match Point: variación perversa de A place in the sun by Laso, Eduardo

“…El film Match Point ha sido considerado como continuación temática de otro anterior de Woody Allen, Crímenes y Pecados, tomando como referencia la acción llevada adelante por el personaje de Chris Walton, comparándola con la del oftalmólogo compuesto por Martín Landau. …”
Get full text

Notes on Alain Badiou and the cinema by Laso, Eduardo

“…The writing is organized in twelve sections: 1) cinema is a new art that was born in the 20th century; 2) cinema is a mass art; 3) cinema is an ontological art; 4) the cinema makes time visible; 5) cinema as the most-one of the other arts; 6) cinema is an impure art; 7) each film is a singular real object, which exposes the passage of an idea according to the shot and the montage; 8) the art of cinema as a visitation of an idea; 9) cinema as an ethical setting; 10) the three ways of talking about a film; 11) a film is a point-subject of an artistic configuration; 12) from tragic cinema to cinema as a moving image of eternity. …”
Get full text

Responsibility for pleasure by Laso, Eduardo

“…The sexual abuse case that the film proposes allows, however, to elude that path. …”
Get full text

A failed pere-version by Laso, Eduardo

“…Pier Paolo Pasolini´s film adaptation of Sophocles´ Oedipus The King, offers the peculiarity to joint Oedipus myth and Sofocles´ tragedy, with Sigmund Freud interpretation of the greek tragedy. …”
Get full text

Before Truman... and after by Laso, Eduardo

“…There are two interesting antecedents to the film The Truman Show. One of them is “Special Service”, an episode of the popular series The Twilight Zone. …”
Get full text

The memory of the murderers by Laso, Eduardo

“…Atom Egoyan´s Remember confronts us with that problem. The film is about justice and responsability, the problem of the memory for unforgivable acts, and the decisions about criminal past.…”
Get full text

Pseudo Heroines: Inclusion by Exclusion of the Feminine by Laso, Eduardo

“…Ridley Scott’s film G. I. Jane about women discrimination in the army and their right to be included presents a paradoxical solution: women’s inclusion in the army is accepted only if they choose to resign their feminity and become males. …”
Get full text

Omnivoyeur. Commentary on The Truman Show, by Peter Weir by Laso, Eduardo

“…Lacan says that the subject of desire is not entirely trapped in this imaginary catch, as long as he is able to separate the function of the screen and play with it. Peter Weir´s film The Truman Show is, in that sense, an epic of the desire, as it tells the story of a character subjected to the gaze of millions of spectators of a reality show, and how he can get out of that confinement.…”
Get full text

La responsabilidad por la repetición by Laso, Eduardo

“…A partir del pensamiento de Søren Kierkegaard y Friedrich Nietzsche se retoma el concepto de repetición, mostrando como en estos autores la repetición puede ser una novedad, una tarea de la libertad, el objeto mismo del querer. El film permite pensar así a la repetición de Nietzsche como una forma de legalidad que supera a la moral kantiana, introduciendo una reflexión acerca del deseo y el amor.…”
Get full text

Transferencia y deseo del analista by Laso, Eduardo

“…En Un método peligroso, la relación de dependencia transferencial y los riesgos que conlleva su mal manejo por parte de Jung son tratados a través de la lente de David Cronenberg, no obstante la diferencia de intereses entre el director canadiense, quien lleva sus obsesiones a los temas que aborda, y los del psicoanálisis en tanto teoría y práctica clínica. Si bien el film no pretende ser un acercamiento riguroso al método psicoanalítico, puede ser leído en sí mismo como un síntoma de la vigencia que mantiene el aporte central de Freud y las vicisitudes de su lectura un siglo después.…”
Get full text

From love as recognition, to courage in the face of castration by Laso, Eduardo

“…For Lacan, love is tested by facing castration. If in Cukor´s film, Amanda will put her husband to the test of offering his lack for love, she too will be put to the test by Adam to recognize that beyond the militancy of equal rights for women, it is required to admit in the erotic level a “tiny difference”. …”
Get full text

El cine como interpelación ética by Laso, Eduardo

“…La realización de los films constituye una intervención en acto sobre el pasado horroroso y tergiversado que documentan, una singularidad ética que apunta a producir un efecto en lo real y en los sujetos involucrados en el film, en el esfuerzo por significar un genocidio que, a 50 años de su realización, sigue teniendo la actualidad de un trauma.…”
Get full text

Filmando seres humanos by Laso, Eduardo

“…Into the Abyss (Dentro del abismo) y On death row (En el corredor de la muerte) de Werner Herzog se centran en entrevistas a condenados a muerte de cárceles de Florida y Texas. No se trata en estos films de un manifiesto contra la pena de muerte. …”
Get full text