Comportamentul individului instituţionalizat. Analiză comparativă între ficţiunea cinematografică şi realitatea carcerală
The Behaviour of Institutionalised Individuals. Contrastive Analysis between Cinematic Fiction and Carceral Reality

Summary/Abstract: The situation of institutionalized persons and the consequences of the forcedinstitutionalization experience is a topic often addressed in scientific research,cinematographic productions or literary works. Living in closed and punitiveenvironments such as prisons, correction schools, psychiatric hospitals, for along time, involves a process of identity cancellation. Isolation from the rest ofsociety makes it difficult to preserve the status of the individual and thenrecover the initial private identity. Regardless of the intensity of efforts made tosupport the preservation of individuality, the major difficulty manifests itself atthe moment of reintegration into the external environment of "totalinstitutions". Our paper analyzes the experience of institutionalization from theperspective of Erving Goffman's research. Reviewing this theoretical support,our work aims to analyze the films The Lobster (2015) and The ShawshankRedemption (1994), compared to the experience of a former prisoner of BistritaPenitentiary in 2005 and of former prisoners in Pitesti Prison in the period1949-1952. The objective of the research is to identify the primary, secondarybehaviours and similarities between the selected cases.

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