Environmental flaws and emotional maturation process: an illustrative analysis from a filmic production.

Abstract

This paper takes as reference the concept of antisocial tendency from Winnicott’s theory of emotional development. In this theory, the environmental flaw known as deprivation, manifested in antisocial behavior, bases this tendency. Deprivation is different from privation. Privation is the absence of appropriate environmental care since the beginning of development. On the other hand, deprivation occurs as result of a situation of positive and good enough care, which continuity suffered disruption wider than the individual’s ability to keep alive the experience of a supportive environment. Broader emotional lack, there is a significant expropriation feeling after loss of those who are responsible for environmental care, than, dispossessed. A joint of aspects of this behavior were undertaken, illustrated by biographical filmic production Gia, which depicts the personality of Gia Carangi, young woman who printed their singularity to the fashion world in the eighties, infected with HIV and the first woman victim of AIDS. Considered as a case study, the methodological context of selection, categorization and analyses of the film followed the concept of time-image proposed by Deleuze, systematized in three thematic temporal axis (performative time, hopelessness time and testimonial time). The analyses illustrated concepts linked to the manifestation of the antisocial acts that allow the understanding of a range of clinical symptoms of the current clinic, highlighting the playful nature of the relationship between cinema and psychoanalysis.