Trauma e repetição: uma leitura psicanalítica sobre a série Bebê Rena

Abstract

In general terms, this study aims to establish the contributions of Psychoanalysis for the analysis of the main character in the series “Bebê Rena,” particularly regarding the idea of death drive, trauma, and compulsion to repeat. Through the study of the cinematic production, it is observed how, stemming from sexual trauma, the character “Donny” identifies and incorporates the image of her aggressor. The research will schematically address the texts of Ferenczi (1933/2011) and Freud (1920), especially “Remembering, Repeating, and Working Through” (1914). It will also involve the selection and organization of theoretical material, focusing on theories and experiences of psychoanalysis applied to interpretations of different contexts based on their concepts. Thus, the purpose of this study is to establish a conceptual-argumentative thread, observing psychoanalytic theories alongside the analyzed series, which expresses the influence that traumatic experiences exert on the subject's psychic constitution. It should also be considered that the screenwriter of the series is the subject of the real story, who was portrayed as Donny in the narrative. The writing itself reveals how repetition keeps the individual in suffering and symbolizes the elaboration of trauma