Entwining psychoanalysis and cinema, this paper seeks to reflect about the status of image in contemporary society. This search goes beyond a conformist imaginary configuration to point out the existence of a traumatic potentiality of the image, as indicated by Freudian concept of screen memories. This idea is explored by a discussion about French Director Gaspar Noé production "Irréversible", 2002. In this work, violence isn't simply showed in images but works "between" the images. In its editing pulsates the scaring possibility that something essential about image, related to death and sexuality, can't be told as a history, but destroys everything in a circular repetition.
Psychoanalysis; Trauma; Cinema