The Dead Mother complex in Arnaud Desplechin's film "A Christmas Tale"

Psychoanalysis of cinema

  • Oksana V. Tsanava
Keywords: dead mother complex, dead father, dead parenthood, essential depression, psychosomatic paradox, white affect, unrepresented loss, unwanted child, frozen grief, the film

Abstract

The article examines the symptoms of the dead mother complex in two characters of A. Desplechin's film "A Christmas Tale", as well as the features of family dynamics and grief in other family members shown in the film.

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Author Biography

Oksana V. Tsanava

Tsanava Oksana V., psychologist, psychoanalytic psychotherapist (Society of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy), associate member of the Moscow Psychoanalytic Association, lecturer at the Higher School of Psychology, supervisor of study groups of the master's program "Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Business Counseling" at the Higher School of Economics.

Published
2025-01-12
How to Cite
TsanavaO. V. (2025). The Dead Mother complex in Arnaud Desplechin’s film "A Christmas Tale". Journal of Clinical and Applied Psychoanalysis, 5(4), 65-84. Retrieved from https://psychoanalysis-journal.hse.ru/article/view/24465
Issue
Vol 5 No 4 (2024): Journal of Clinical and Applied Psychoanalysis
Section
APPLIED PSYCHOANALYSIS