Universal characters: the continuity of the Freudian typology in current cinematographic models

Abstract

In his essay “Some kinds of character found out in the analitic work”, published in 1916, Sigmund Freud defined, brief but sharply, the peculiarities through which the human mind is ruled in three kinds of very curious personalities, which are, however, quite usual in our society as well as at the time when the author described them. With the purpose of enlighten the psychoanalytical theory, this investigation tries to facilitate its knowledge taking as models three film characters, examples extracted from the current reality, sometimes chillingly daily. Specifically, the protagonist of Celda 211 (Daniel Monzón, 2009), De latir mi corazón se ha parado (Jacques Audiard, 2005) y Las horas del día (Jaime Rosales, 2003) will be examined from the narrative semantics, with a methodology of discourse analysis through premises of Freudian base.