Key words: psychoanalysis, cinema, evil, psychopathology, psychopathy, Haneke, Andò
Rossella Valdrè analyses in a psychoanalytic way some M. Haneke’s and Andò’s movies. Those movies are characterized by a main theme: psychopathy in familiar and social context. The Evil is both psychopathy consequence and factor underlying. Through that movies it’s possible to see a change contemporary mental illness: the present could be psychopathy age, unlike the past as being defined as psychotic age. The psychopathy age is characterized by a generalized loss of sense of guilty and a consequent lack of empathy. In Valdré’s analysis Cinema becomes an instrument to visualize unconscious and not symbolized objects, like Evil, and it may act as cathartic and therapeutic function for spectators.