This research grew out of unease before a phenomenon that shows the fascination of men who
relate to Real Dolls. These models perfectly simulate height, weight, shape, texture, color,
sex, like “flesh and blood”, however are made of “metal and silicone”. The dolls, however,
are not mere sex toys, as often acquire the function of date, which putting into question the
very dimension of otherness. This relationship constructed artificially, therefore, works as
thrower of questions about the other and the present. Thus, the objective of this study was to
propose a theoretical discussion of psychoanalytic slant, about the notion of otherness in
contemporary culture. To do this, I followed the line of key questions: Who are the other and
otherness? What is its place in today's culture? Would be otherness threatened by
simulacrum? How to think about “denial of otherness” through the prism of Postmodernity?
Following the conductive direction, put into focus the complexities of “other” at the same
time familiar and strange, configured from a “stranger to me” and a “estranger in me” –
referring to the radical otherness that constitutes the self, the unconscious. The reference to
the present starts from the clash between modern and postmodern, where it emphasizes the
concern of a society that is governed by the spectacle of a narcissistic and a person extremely
individualistic, hedonistic and consumerist. Acquire space in this context the figure of
"artificial other" which follows the perverse logic of predation that sets the primacy of the self
at the expense of otherness. Thus, the other reveals an artifice of otherness artifice and a
presence or absence that plays with the appearances of the present and conceals its "body" in
an apparent familiarity. Though, the otherness persists and moves, supporting the other as an
element that disrupts and eliminate the structure of the person, giving to the contemporary
malaise a special place to the otherness. Then, the other is on the one hand, disposable,
because the logic narcissistic proclaims the self-sufficiency of the self-ideal, while on the
other hand, is a key part of the show. It is important to consider, therefore, that the place of
otherness is guaranteed, though camouflaged by the indifference, contrary to the impression
transmitted by panorama that makes you understand our extinction.
|
