Fundamentos psicoanalíticos en la filmografía sonora de Fritz Lang

Abstract

"AIMS: This research mainly aims at: -Analyzing Cinema as a contemporary historical phenomenon, as well as the intentioned inclusion of the psychodynamic explanation in Fritz Lang's sound films. -Interpreting the discourse of scripts and frames in Fritz Lang's sound films, from the hermeneutics of facticity and Panofsky's iconology, in order to verify its scientific relevance. "METHODOLOGY: For the study of such aims, Fritz Lang's 27 sound films were selected (all of them except from Liliom), and the dialogues related to the theme of Psycoanalysis were transcribed at the same time than the frames corresponding to the scenes were selected, with the aim of performing an hermeneutic analysis of the dialogues- scripts and an iconological-iconographic analysis of the frames. With this purpose in mind, an ad hoc categorization was prepared, taking into account six vertebral nuclei that gather a wide spectrum of the different psychodynamic foundations relevant in this study, namely: presence of psychopathology; conflict and psychic trauma, unconscious and symbolic elements, defense mechanisms, oniric activity; sexuality and Oedipus/Electra complex. "CONCLUSIONS: After the corresponding treatment of data and the interpretation of results, the conclusions are, amongst others, that: -Fritz Lang repeatedly showed his deep interest in Psychoanalysis, referring to it in different ways, through the use of a multitude of phrases in interviews and conferences on the subject. To a greater extent, those ones held with Bogdanovich (1965), Godard (1965) and Friednik (1975) are highlighted, in which he underlines his knowledge about this subject . -Fritz Lang's sound films show the presence and intention of at least one of the explicit psychoanalytic categories in all the films studied, the most represented being the category of "Sexuality and Oedipus/Electra Complex", which appears in all the films. The film that turned out to show a more reliable representation of the psychodynamic contents of interest was Perversity, with the inclusion of all of them. -The film director Fritz Lang included, showed and took into consideration psychoanalytic elements in the direction of his different sound films. Most of the observed and analyzed elements require a previous study and learning that, hardly, can be carried out under casual conditions. This fact, together with his sustained and public interest in the current of Psychoanalysis, leads to the conclusion that there is a clear intentionality and inclusion of psychoanalytic foundations in his sound films.