Tragedy in Ancient Literature

February 22, 2025

Tragedy in ancient literature follows a recurring structure that can be seen in Greek and Latin texts. Its function is not only to tell a story of misfortune, but also to reveal the fundamental tensions of the human condition: fate, responsibility, enjoyment, law, and transgression.

Presentation - School of Creation: Cinema, Art, Psychoanalysis

January 29, 2025

A presentation on the role of psychoanalysis in cinema and art education.

School of cinema, Art and Psychoanalysis

January 29, 2025

An overview of a school dedicated to cinema, art, and psychoanalysis.

Cinema, designer, editing, video, marketing, recruitment

January 29, 2025

Explores the role of design and editing in cinema marketing, highlighting recruitment strategies in the field.

ADULT SUBJECTIVITY / INTROSPECTION / PSYCHOLOGICAL DEPTH

June 11, 2025

Adulthood is a land of contradictions, memories, regrets and reinventions. While childhood is often portrayed as a period of discovery, maturity appears in cinema as a labyrinth of choices, silences and internal conflicts. The films below explore the complexity of adult subjectivity, delving into themes such as loneliness, grief, unrequited love, existential crisis and the search for meaning in a fragmented world.

Cinema, Analysis, Doubt, Fantasy Abuse

December 26, 2025

Fantasy abuse Primordial fantasy scene of one's conception Being handled by the Other as a baby Innocence x Abuse Lacanian Analysis

Homosexuality, paternity and maternity in Farewell, My Concubine

February 22, 2025

Dieyi’s relationship with Xiaolou can also be read from the perspective of the ghost: he desires not only Xiaolou, but also the position of being desired by him, a repetition of his relationship with his mother, who abandoned him. Homosexuality here is not just a sexual issue, but a symptom of a displaced and repressed desire.

Best Movies of 2024

February 18, 2025

Love, Connection and Silence

Cinema Business: Monetization, Partners

July 27, 2025

A Klein Bottle Lacanian Movie

Loveless

June 11, 2025

Childhood is not just a biological phase, but a space of subjective construction, where the child emerges as a complex subject, capable of experiencing conflicts, traumas, discoveries and transformations. Cinema, as an art that captures the human condition, often explores this childhood subjectivity, revealing how children navigate in worlds that are often hostile, ambiguous or full of affection. The selection of films below, organized by cultural origins, demonstrates how different societies portray the child as a being in formation, but already endowed with agency, emotions and a unique vision of reality.

Cinema Personal Strategy

January 29, 2025

Strategy to produce a feature-length cinema project.

Cinema Proposal: Feature-Length

January 29, 2025

A proposal outlining the structure and themes of a feature-length cinema project.

Cinema

January 29, 2025

A broad exploration of cinema as an art form and cultural phenomenon.

Directors: Languages and Genres

August 20, 2025

Explore the groundbreaking work of iconic filmmakers from around the world who have shaped cinema history. This collection showcases master directors and their most influential films, representing diverse cultures, styles, and cinematic movements that have left an indelible mark on global cinema.

Cinema Downton Abbey Analysis

February 2, 2026

Table by season with main themes worked on each episode of Downton Abbey

EGOT, Awards, Psychoanalysis

October 15, 2025

Love, Connection and Silence

FAMILY / LOSS / RECONCILIATION

June 11, 2025

Family is not just a blood bond, but an emotional battleground – where love coexists with pain, abandonment with resistance, and reconciliation rarely comes without scars. The films below explore this dynamic in raw and poetic ways, showing that belonging and loss are two sides of the same coin.

Cinema: Languages and Genres

June 11, 2025

This grouping emphasizes thematic resonance, tonal similarities, and stylistic affinities across national cinemas, helping one navigate cultural, aesthetic, and emotional terrains in global cinema.

Industry: The Cinematic Apparatus and Desire

January 30, 2025

Analyzes the film industry through a Lacanian lens, exploring how cinema manufactures desire, ideology, and identification, and the impact of capitalist structures on artistic production.

LGBTQ+ on screen

June 11, 2025

LGBTQ+ representation in cinema has never been just about identity, but about existence in a world that insists on classifying us. The films below build narratives that go beyond the “gay drama” - they explore the topology of desire, where love, violence and self-discovery intertwine in forms as complex as a Klein Bottle.

Cinema: LOTR Topology and Transexuality

November 28, 2025

Lord of the Rings analysis Transexuality, Schreber and the movie's narrative Analogies with the movie Male narrative, push-towards-women/Other Jouissance

The Imaginary and the Symbolic: Arabic Cinema

February 28, 2025

Arabic cinema as a site where the Imaginary (desire and identity) and the Symbolic (language and cultural codes) intersect, revealing the unconscious structures of Arab societies.

The Real in Chinese Cinematic Language

February 28, 2025

Chinese cinema’s use of visual and linguistic symbolism to navigate the Real—the unspeakable trauma and cultural history that resists representation.

Lacanian Analysis: British Cinema

February 28, 2025

English-language cinema as a mirror reflecting the fragmented self, exploring the Lacanian Mirror Stage and the construction of identity through Industry and independent films.

Lacanian Analysis: American Cinema

February 28, 2025

English-language cinema as a mirror reflecting the fragmented self, exploring the Lacanian Mirror Stage and the construction of identity through Hollywood and independent films.

Desire and Lack in French Cinema

February 28, 2025

French cinema’s exploration of desire, lack, and the objet petit a, as seen in the works of auteurs like Godard and Truffaut, who interrogate the human condition through visual and linguistic metaphors.

The Gaze and the Other: German Cinema

February 28, 2025

German cinema’s confrontation with the Other and the Lacanian Gaze, examining how films like those of Fassbinder and Herzog reveal the unconscious anxieties of post-war Germany.

The Symbolic Order in Bollywood

February 28, 2025

Hindi cinema’s negotiation of the Symbolic Order through song, dance, and melodrama, reflecting the tension between tradition and modernity in Indian society.

The Real of Italian Neorealism

February 28, 2025

Italian neorealism’s confrontation with the Real—poverty, war, and existential despair—through a cinematic language that blurs the line between fiction and reality.

The Void and the Phallus: Japanese Cinema

February 28, 2025

Japanese cinema’s exploration of the void (mu) and the phallic signifier, as seen in the works of Kurosawa and Ozu, where silence and emptiness speak to the unconscious.

The Objet Petit a in Korean Cinema

February 28, 2025

Korean cinema’s obsession with the objet petit a—the unattainable object of desire—as seen in its thrillers and dramas, which often revolve around loss, longing, and the impossibility of fulfillment.

Melancholy and the Real: Portuguese Cinema

February 28, 2025

Portuguese cinema’s melancholic engagement with the Real, exploring themes of saudade and the ineffable through a visual language that resists closure.

The Big Other in Russian Cinema

February 28, 2025

Russian cinema’s interrogation of the Big Other—state, ideology, and religion—through a cinematic language that oscillates between submission and subversion.

Desire and the Law: Spanish Cinema

February 28, 2025

Spanish cinema’s exploration of desire and its regulation by societal and religious laws, as seen in the works of Almodóvar and Buñuel, who challenge the boundaries of the Symbolic Order.

Best Movies of 2024

February 18, 2025

Love, Connection and Silence

The British Gaze: Cinema and the Other

February 28, 2025

British cinema’s engagement with the Lacanian Gaze, particularly in its portrayal of class, race, and colonialism, revealing the unconscious anxieties of a post-imperial society.

Roadmap on cinema: languages and production

January 29, 2025

Discusses the evolution of cinematic languages and their impact on film production.

Psychoanalysis of HTGAWM: Trauma, Repetition

October 25, 2025

Generational trauma in How to get away with murder

Love Sctructure

February 22, 2025

Love structure framework

Psychoanalysis in Cinema: The Gaze and the Screen

January 30, 2025

Explores cinema as a mirror stage where the spectator's gaze interacts with the symbolic order, using Lacan’s theories to decode film narratives, editing techniques, and audience reception.

School: Cinema, Art, Psychoanalysis

January 29, 2025

Examines the intersection of cinema, art, and psychoanalysis in educational settings.

Storytelling and trauma in reality shows

August 1, 2025

Reality shows create a stage not just for performance, but for structured enjoyment, regulated desire, and ritualized exposure of trauma. Shows like Drag Race and Survivor operate as narrative machines that extract subjectivity as spectacle — often organized by the logic of jouissance, fantasy, and the Name-of-the-Father (or its absence).

Structure of tragedy

January 29, 2025

Analyzes the tragic structure in cinema and its psychoanalytic implications.

Screenwriter Tennessee Williams

November 18, 2025

what was happening in Tennessee Williams’s life around 1946–1948 and how his relationship with Frank Merlo intersects (or doesn’t) with the creation of A Streetcar Named Desire.

The Hours, Virginia Woolf

July 29, 2025

A broad exploration of cinema as an art form and cultural phenomenon.

Women in Cinema - Analysis

August 1, 2025

Female narratives over the last century, highlighting themes like RSI, female jouissance, toxicomania, delirium/rivalry, suicide, family, work, love, and the arc of surviving tragedy into aging and grandmotherhood

Algorithmic Narratives and Subjectivity

January 30, 2025

Investigates the intersection of programming and cinema, examining how digital filmmaking and AI-generated narratives shape cinematic language and the unconscious.

Linktree Cinema Psychoanalysis Dev Courses

February 6, 2025

Linktree page for Cinema, Psychoanalysis, Courses, Dev, CVs

Presentation - School of Creation: Cinema, Art, Psychoanalysis

January 29, 2025

A presentation on the integration of cinema, art, and psychoanalysis in education.

Lacan's Logical Time

February 10, 2025

Sentence structures with Lacanian discourse theory, showing how language shapes and reflects different modes of subjectivity and power relations.

MODULE 2 Precarious Lives (Transsexualities/Sexualities in Cinema)

March 21, 2025

Presentation - School of Creation: Cinema, Art, Psychoanalysis

January 29, 2025

Presenting psychoanalysis in the context of cinema and art, exploring their interconnections through Lacanian theory.