In this article, I propose an analysis of the film Me, Myself and Mum (Les garçons et Guillaume, à table! Directed by Guillaume Gallienne. France 2013) with a view to a political and relational perspective of the connections between psychoanalysis, narrative and subjectivation process. My inspiration for this is in the way Judith Butler articulates these dimensions in her book Giving an Account of Oneself (2005). In this work, Butler proposes a theory of the formation of the subject in which Hannah Arendt’s conception of narrative plays a fundamental role, after being reformulated by Adriana Cavarero’s conception of narrable self and combined with Jean Laplanche’s relational metapsychology. In this text, my goal is to invite Butler and Arendt to the movies to later discuss the relationship between narrative, psychoanalysis and subjectivity in view of the link between ethics and politics that the story in which Guillaume tells us about who he is can inspire.
Hannah Arendt; Judith Butler; Subjectivation; Psychoanalysis; Narrative