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| Author(s): |
Camila Lousana Pavanelli De Lorenzi
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Psicologia (IP/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2016-05-20 |
| Examining board members: |
Joao Augusto Frayze Pereira;
Camila Salles Gonçalves;
Ana Maria Loffredo;
Silvana Maria Réa;
Verônica Antonine Stigger
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| Advisor: | Joao Augusto Frayze Pereira |
| Abstract | |
This work looks at television show The Wire (USA, 2002-2008) as a means to investigate the psychoanalytic concepts of sublimation and reality. The Wire takes drug trafficking in Baltimore as a starting point to consider the institutions of the police, the stevedores union, the city government, city schools and the press. This dissertation first situates The Wire within the context of US television and considers its formal structure and visual and narrative aspects. It then proceeds to describe and comment on the five seasons of the show, paying special attention to the modus operandi of drug trafficking in each of them. The following chapter is an investigation of the concepts of sublimation and reality throughout Freuds writings, divided into three sections: the constitution of the psychic apparatus, the drives and their vicissitudes and the civilization and its discontents. Lastly, this work connects the studies of The Wire and Freud conducted in previous chapters and advances the notion of a type of sublimation which is at the service of Thanatos, i.e., destruction. The target of such destruction in current capitalist societies is the body of humans and the body of the Earth namely nature, understood as an array of infinite resources to be exploited. This sublimation, in which the death drive is fused with the domination drive, has prompted the consideration of reality from a drive perspective: there are both erotic and thanatic realities (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 12/18416-6 - The Wire: Sublimation and Reality |
| Grantee: | Camila Lousana Pavanelli de Lorenzi |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |