"THE PIANO TEACHER" AND THE QUESTION OF PERVERSION

Álvaro Daniel Reyes Gómez

doi:10.1590/1809-44142020001013

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This article aims to demonstrate how perversion, as a subject, activates investigation. As a starting point, it explores Freud’s idea surrounding fetishism as a paradigm of itself; a necessary interval between neurosis and psychosis. This analysis is followed by a presentation of various notions developed by Lacan in his teachings. Subsequently, the article analyzes Haneke’s 2001 film “The piano teacher”, here considered as a case of substitute perversion that adds to the few documented cases of this nature. The movie contributes elements that allow to think about and further develop the notion of substitute perversion in psychosis. In it, “the teacher” demonstrates the separation between love, desire, juissance and what Lacan calls “false hole” through borromean rings. Lastly, questions are posed regarding perversion; organized by answers, opposite the two aforementioned structures.

Highlights

In any case, thinking about the course of the movie, meaning what would be the logical continuity to loss, the index of the castration, to a mother such as The teacher, would lead to psychotic reparations and not to perverse solutions
One may think that the Young homosexual woman (FREUD, 1920/2008) fulfills this function, there have been disagreements, since this would be, to some, hysteria and not perversion
We are lacking productions that share the importance of neurosis and psychosis arising from the analytical encounter with those who approach the enygma surrounding desire, love and jouissance in a different manner and the discourse regarding the categories of Real, Symbolic and Imaginary

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Introduction

In any case, thinking about the course of the movie, meaning what would be the logical continuity to loss, the index of the castration, to a mother such as The teacher, would lead to psychotic reparations and not to perverse solutions. This complication would be the indicator of a lapsus in the knotting sexual jouissance, in function of the object of desire and love.

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