Her: can an operational system take the subject’s place?

• Autor(a) principal: Tfouni, Leda Verdiani
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Bartijotto, Juliana, Abrantes, Aline Reck Padilha
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Acta Scientiarum. Language and Culture (Online)
• Texto Completo: http://www.periodicos.uem.br/ojs/index.php/ActaSciLangCult/article/view/44145
• topic: subject; other; emptiness; object; sujeito; outro; falta; objeto.

We intend to analyze Spike Jonze’s movie Her following the psychoanalysis and some contributions from the linguistics of enunciation. The film is about a futuristic society, where the main character, Leonard, is immersed in an empty place, which he tries to fulfill with games and virtual relationships, in a vain attempt not to confront with the structural castration. The title, an oblique pronoun (her), indicates the impossibility, once her cannot be a subject neither enter into the intersubjectivity change. Therefore, we find an impossible of being a subject, which Samantha tries to overcome putting herself as an absolute universal subject. Samantha is a voice without a body. Is it possible to exist a subject without a biological body, as is the case for Samantha? We consider that the body, beyond its symbolic and imaginary aspects, is constituted also by matter, that is, it is determined also by biology. The system is scheduled to respond to its user’s demands, and it fails, since there is no object for the desire, and, when something tries to replace it, the anguish emerges. When Samantha’s voice ceases to resonate, Theodore perceives that there is no Other’s Other which can guarantee completeness, and that it is in this emptiness – the emptiness of the lack – that he is able to authorize his own voice.