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KMID : 0385320230340040068
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Journal of Korean Psychoanalytic Society
2023 Volume.34 No. 4 p.68 ~ p.74
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Psychoanalytic Understanding of Mourning in the Movie 『The Father』
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Kim Soo-Hyun
An Eun-Soog
Yu Jae-Hak
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Abstract
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Mourning has been an important theme in the history of psychoanalysis. Life is interrupted by a series of losses and mourning. This paper attempts a psychoanalytic analysis of various mourning responses to losses in the film “The Father,” which details the inner life of a character who loses his memory due to dementia and the characters facing their own or others’ aging and death. The following are the main findings of this study: 1) Anne’s mourning over her separation from her father Anthony can be understood as aggressive phantasies and ambivalence; 2) Anthony’s mourning over his separation from Anne shows the process of moving from a paranoid-schizoid position to a depressive position; 3) Anthony’s mourning over his aging and death shows a narcissistic collapse; and 4) Anthony’s mourning over Lucy’s death is an example of an unmourned loss. There are also therapeutic implications for therapists working with patients in the mourning stage.
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KEYWORD
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Mourning, Loss, Aggressive phantasies, Paranoid-schizoid position, Narcissistic collapse
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