Narcissistic contract and identificatory project in film A Better Life

Keywords: Narcissistic contract,, identificatory project, adolescence,, migration.

Abstract

Narcissistic contract and identificatory project (1) are concepts applied to the crossroads that adolescents face in the transition from family to social world. Adolescents find possibilities of being, each one of which promise them certain things. Adolescents’ choice is a narcissistic contract in as much as, by signing it, they assume a commitment with society or with a part of it. In exchange, adolescents expect their narcissism to be sustained by society. At the same time, a reconfiguration of identifications begins through which adolescents try to be part of a transgenerational chain than not necessarily is their family’s, but a particular social groups’, more or less broad, that they reproduce and perpetuate. This process is portrayed in the film A better life (2). In this paper, the film’s story is analyzed using psychoanalytical concept aforementioned.

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Published
2020-01-05
How to Cite
Cisneros Herrera , J., Rodríguez López, D., Salinas Salazar, M. I., & Guzmán Díaz , G. (2020). Narcissistic contract and identificatory project in film A Better Life. Boletín Científico De La Escuela Superior Atotonilco De Tula, 7(13), 39-43. https://doi.org/10.29057/esat.v7i13.5294

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