Le monde, la scène et « la scène dans la scène ». Une répétition qui ne fait qu’à sa tête ou A Serious Man Breaking Bad
The World, the Scene and “the Scene within the Scene”. A Repetition that Only Acts its own Way or A Serious Man Breaking Bad

Summary/Abstract: In both A Serious Man and Breaking Bad the concept of repetition is addressed, and reworked following a Freudian and a Lacanian take. The true repetition is what is new, and not what is obsolete, and always the same. Destiny as mere result of classical repetition, as an already there, already written, is thus confronted with the other side of repetition, that of the presence of the subject on “the scene of the world”, and not merely among the spectators. Moreover, “the scene in the scene” is in both features a way of showing that the unconscious is the royal path to one’s identity, in its singularity. Repetition in all its states is therefore the actual choice for the subject in order to choose its own way of dying. And, without knowing it, this is precisely what the two heroes, Larry and Walt, put forward in these pictures.

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