Abstract
This article investigates possible analogies between the documentarian’s, Eduardo Coutinho’s, listening and view, and psychoanalytical attention. Coutinho’s filmography questions the simple duality between reality and fiction. Psychoanalysis, too, questions this duality, from notions such as psychic reality and material reality. Freud went on to affirm that the psychic apparatus is constituted as fiction. In a situation of analysis, and through free association, by the patient, and interested listening, which believes in the subject’s truth, by the analyst, transformations may occur, in a way that representations can be modified, traumatic situations elaborated, suffering settled. In this case, both psychoanalytical, as well as Eduardo Coutinho’s listening, would be attesting the subject’s existence through a radical opening to otherness and taking existence in its fictional aspect.
Keywords:
cinema; psychoanalysis; Eduardo Coutinho; otherness