Her: can an operational system take the subject's place?/Her: pode um sistema operacional ocupar o lugar de sujeito?

We intend to analyze Spike Jonze's movie Her following the psychoanalysis and some contributions from the linguistics of enunciation. The film is about a futuristic society, where the main character, Leonard, is immersed in an empty place, which he tries to fulfill with games and virtual relati...

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Published inActa Scientiarum. Language and Culture (UEM) Vol. 41; no. 1
Main Authors Tfouni, Leda Verdiani, Ba, Abrantes, Aline Reck Padilha
Format Journal Article
LanguageSpanish
Published Universidade Estadual de Maringa 01.01.2019
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ISSN1983-4675
DOI10.4025/actascilangcult.v41i1.44145

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Summary:We intend to analyze Spike Jonze's movie Her following the psychoanalysis and some contributions from the linguistics of enunciation. The film is about a futuristic society, where the main character, Leonard, is immersed in an empty place, which he tries to fulfill with games and virtual relationships, in a vain attempt not to confront with the structural castration. The title, an oblique pronoun (her), indicates the impossibility, once her cannot be a subject neither enter into the intersubjectivity change. Therefore, we find an impossible of being a subject, which Samantha tries to overcome putting herself as an absolute universal subject. Samantha is a voice without a body. Is it possible to exist a subject without a biological body, as is the case for Samantha? We consider that the body, beyond its symbolic and imaginary aspects, is constituted also by matter, that is, it is determined also by biology. The system is scheduled to respond to its user's demands, and it fails, since there is no object for the desire, and, when something tries to replace it, the anguish emerges. When Samantha's voice ceases to resonate, Theodore perceives that there is no Other's Other which can guarantee completeness, and that it is in this emptiness--the emptiness of the lack--that he is able to authorize his own voice. Keywords: subject; other; emptiness; object Pretendemos analisar o filme Her, de Spike Jonze seguindo os fundamentos da psicanalise e alguns apontamentos da linguistica da enunciacao. Trata-se de uma historia futurista, cujo protagonista, Theodore, esta imerso em um vazio que ele procura preencher com jogos e relacoes virtuais, numa tentativa va de nao se haver com a castracao, que e estrutural. O titulo, um pronome obliquo (her), ja indicia a impossibilidade, visto que her nao pode ser sujeito nem entrar na troca caracteristica da intersubjetividade. Funda-se, assim, um impossivel de ser sujeito que Samantha tenta contornar colocando-se como sujeito universal absoluto. Samantha e uma voz sem corpo. Mas seria da ordem do possivel um sujeito sem corpo biologico, como e o caso de Samantha? Consideramos que o corpo, alem de seus aspectos simbolico e imaginario, e constituido por materia, ou seja, sua biologia e determinante. O sistema e um objeto programado para responder a demanda de seu usuario, e falha, porque para o desejo nao ha objeto, e quando algo e colocado no lugar, a angustia emerge. Quando a voz de Samantha deixa de ressoar no ouvido de Theodore, este se da conta de que nao ha Outro do Outro que possa garantir a completude e e nessa falta que o sujeito surge. A estrutura do Outro constitui um vazio--o vazio da falta-- que possibilita a Theodore autorizar-se a legitimar a propria voz. Palavras chaves: sujeito; outro; falta; objeto.
ISSN:1983-4675
DOI:10.4025/actascilangcult.v41i1.44145