‘I Am (big) M(Other)’: Lacan’s big Other and the Role of Cynicism in Grant Sputore’s I Am Mother

Authors

  • Jack Black Senior Lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1234/fa.v0i80.372

Keywords:

cinema, artificial intelligence, psychoanalysis

Abstract

The film touches upon a number of significant topics, including technological advancement, performed through the threat of artificial intelligence; potential ecological disaster, while referred to as the ‘wasteland’ it is clear that the world outside the bunker has suffered some form of ecological catastrophe; and, an underlying nature-nurture contention, played-out in Daughter’s sheltered upbringing

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Published

2020-11-30

How to Cite

Black, J. (2020). ‘I Am (big) M(Other)’: Lacan’s big Other and the Role of Cynicism in Grant Sputore’s I Am Mother. Free Associations, (80), 121–131. https://doi.org/10.1234/fa.v0i80.372

Issue

No. 80 (2020)

Section

Cinema On The Couch

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