Violence and Sexual Desire in Luis Buñuel: Case Study of Él (This Strange Passion, 1953) and Ese Oscuro Objeto del Deseo (1977)

Violence originated by excessive desire is one of the most important themes in Buñuel’s filmography. The hypothesis of this article is that Luis Buñuel handles a platonic-psychoanalytic conception of desire as a feeling destined to constant frustration, in the sense that it is always desire for what...

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Autores: Serrano Álvarez, Arturo, Finol, Luis
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2024
País:Uruguay
Institución:Universidad Católica del Uruguay
Repositorio:LIBERI
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:liberi.ucu.edu.uy:10895/6117
Acceso en línea:https://revistas.ucu.edu.uy/index.php/revistadixit/article/view/3870
https://hdl.handle.net/10895/6117
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Luis Buñuel
cine español
sexualidad
violencia
cine mexicano
Spanish cinema
sexuality
violence
Mexican cinema
cinema espanhol
sexualidade
violência
cinema mexicano
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Sumario:Violence originated by excessive desire is one of the most important themes in Buñuel’s filmography. The hypothesis of this article is that Luis Buñuel handles a platonic-psychoanalytic conception of desire as a feeling destined to constant frustration, in the sense that it is always desire for what is not possessed in the present. From the analysis of the films Él (This Strange Passion, 1953) and Ese oscuro objeto del deseo (1977) it is observed that, through the handling of characters full of insecurities and deficiencies, violence becomes a daily currency and a characteristic element that crosses not only the films under study, but also the extensive work of the Aragonese filmmaker.