Abstract
Game of Thrones is an American record-breaking TV serie: audience, awards, budget, even illegal downloads. Its worldwide impact come with a number of criticisms regarding its excessive violence and exposure to degrading sexuality. This article consider how these elements take place in the viewer's psyche, beyond mere voyeurism, to try to understand why many of them watch the serie in a near-addictive way. The first part of the text will try to find what lies underneath the graphic violence and sexuality, using psychoanalytic theories, the underlying hypothesis being an identity between adolescent functionning and the serie's scenario, leading the viewer to a psychological regression. Then, the author will consider the question of what makes an object the cause of an addiction, more precisely the televisual, psychological and societal phenomenons making the serie a potential object of addiction. This subject will be discussed using the Lacanian concept of the four discourses, particularly those of the Master and of the Capitalist, to show the similarities between our reality and the world of the serie.
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