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Vikinzi – dijalektika religioznosti u reafirmaciji ontologije ljudske veze
The Vikings: the Dialectics of Religiousness in the Reaffirmation of Ontology of Human Bond

Author(s): Đorđe Žutić
Subject(s): Film / Cinema / Cinematography, Sociology of Art
Published by: Fakultet za medije i komunikacije - Univerzitet Singidunum
Keywords: TV series Vikings; philotherapy; psychoanalasis; Ragnar; Valhalla; wish; paradise

Summary/Abstract: This paper examines connection between methodological assumptions of philosophical counseling (philotherapy), as a form of psychoterapy, and psychoanalasys, in their key relation to the question of identity. While philotherapy pressuposes that a person posseses ‘firm’ ontological identity, which by an onsetting of behavioural disorders or psychopatologies gets ‘darkened’, adressing the subject’s speech this way would be, according to Lacan, from „it’s most unthankfull angle“, where one „could never identify with the idea of his wish“. But what happens if fenomenalism of an artwork is the surface of things (‘here and now’), while policy takes over the the force of generisation of identity? On the question what is behind it, we will give an explicative answer, in an artwork The Vikings: it displays a cummulative paradigm through which psychoanalasis deconstructed the legitimacy of conventional morallity. Therefore, if the definition of the self ‘here and now’ was there and then, in a perspective taken toward person’s psychodinamics and the ‘nature’ of wish, it all points out to political unconcious. In The Vikings it is represented in an analasys of the myth of Valhalla. According to an experience of the main protagonist and in dialectics of religious concepts of Christianity and vikings, we follow a narrational-technical scheme which grants a perspective of given context. In the outcome of its turnovers we will see the equation of the nature of wish with the ethics of optimising it’s object.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 11
  • Page Range: 81-91
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Serbian
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