We are very pleased to announce that Lucas Ferraço Nassif's new open-access article for Alea: Estudos Neolatinos has just been published!
Titled "Metallic Affects in Hiroshima mon amour: The Unconscious via Jacques Lacan, Gilles Deleuze, and Félix Guattari", Lucas Ferraço Nassif's peer-reviewed article is a frontier work that intersects psychoanalysis and schizoanalysis. The text discusses the unconscious with semiotics and conceptualizes the death-image.
Intersecting the works of Jacques Lacan, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, this essay analyzes the film Hiroshima mon amour (1959). Written by Marguerite Duras and directed by Alain Resnais, the influential film is the encounter between a French woman and a Japanese man in post-World War II Hiroshima. The narrative of a woman and a man meeting after the atomic bombs configures an opportunity to elaborate an original approach to French discussions concerning the relations between the unconscious and semiotics while conceptualizing important questions that cause both the convergence and the divergence of the disciplines of psychoanalysis and schizoanalysis. Several notions are studied in the essay, such as: the categories of the real, the imaginary, and the symbolic, as well as memory, desire, dream, agency, affects, and the war machine.
The full article is available here, at the journal Alea's preprint section.
📷 Photo by Gilles Ehrmann. Sainte-Bernadette-du-Banlay Church, in Nevers, France. Designed by Claude Parent and Paul Virilio. Source: Moreno Moreno; Solano Rojo (2019).
