Fight Club: Radical Sufferings and Contemporary Society

• Autor(a) principal: Arós, Ana Carla Silvares Pompeo de Camargo
• Data de Publicação: 2009
• Outros Autores: Vaisberg, Tânia Maria Jose Aiello
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Psicologia (Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie. Online)
• Texto Completo: http://editorarevistas.mackenzie.br/index.php/ptp/article/view/1654
• topic: Bauman; Fight club; psychoanalysis; psychosis; Winnicott; Bauman; El club de la lucha; psicoanálisis; psicosis; Winnicott; Bauman; Clube da luta; psicanálise; psicose; Winnicott

This paper derives from a psychoanalytical piece of research about an important clinical phenomenon that articulates depersonalization and derealization, which, according to Winnicott, are known as the “inability to feel alive and real”. This is a typical phenomenon found in borderline and psychotic clinical profiles, the manifestations of which have demonstrated to be frequent in contemporary society. The analytical object in use was a psychoanalytical narrative employed in the movie picture known as Fight club understood as a fictional human event. Seven diverse fields were created/found as parts of a greater field – “to be or not to be”. By establishing a dialogue with Winnicott and Bauman, it was possible to conclude that the clinical issue in question is intimately concerned with the new forms of organizing the liquid-modern society, which paradoxically develop a certain type of individualism while they make it hard to personal growth in a sense of developing one’s ability of feeling alive, real and able to provide spontaneous gesture to transform the self and the world.