Assassinos em cena: um estudo sobre os fundamentos metapsicológicos da indústria cinematográfica dos assassinos em série

Abstract

The present thesis aims to discuss the possible metapsychological reasons that contribute to the success of the film industry of serial killers, based on the hypothesis that the human psychological behavior in general, represented by movie s spectators, retain more familiarity with aggressive and homicide minds than it is known. Throughout the content, this essay relies primarily on a discussion about the concept of instinct of death and its relation with aggressiveness, as they were articulated on theoretical contributions of important members of the psychoanalytic field. Primarily, a brief historical resume of the cinematographic branch of terror/suspense was made, since its origins at the first decades of the XX Century to the current super productions, which enables to certify the various forms shown in movies with a homicide perspective. Also, the interpretation of two important researchers of this cinematographic phenomenon is considered, its emphasis in historical and esthetic specific contexts, which is used to summarize the present metapshycological study. As the thesis develops, it is possible to accord that, besides subscribing to the thinking of profound psychic drive of the shaping of this curious and ludicrous culture, as well as the pleasure associated to it; this research consists in an effort to render problematic and elucidate certain facets of the psychic functioning. These facets are, according to a psychoanalytic point of view, related to aggressiveness and violence in order to demarcate important conceptions on interlocutions at other knowledge areas about these themes