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

“…George Cukor´s Adam´s rib raises the question about from where does the couple holds: if it is from mutual recognition in the level of sexual equality, of from the recognition of desire that introduces difference and lack. 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”. …”
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Lisbeth Salander, a current hysteria by Bafico, Jorge

“…The Millennium literary trilogy on which the Swedish films The Men Who Loved Women, The Girl Who Dreamed of a Match and a Can of Gasoline and The Queen in the Palace of Drafts were based, stars Lisbeth Salander, a character who allows us to work on psychoanalytic concepts of hysteria, a clinical structure that not only works as an structure that groups different phenomena in the same logic and allows them to be differentiated from perversions and psychoses, but also refers to the way desire is transmitted. …”
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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. …”
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Garbo laughs! by Fernández, Daniela

“…The purpose of this article is to elaborate the articulation between love for the father and the Lacanian logical category of not-all based on the aforementioned film. …”
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