O CLUBE DA LUTA DE DAVID FINCHER À LUZ DO PSIQUISMO FREUDIANO

In this text, we investigate how the film Fight Club (The Fight Club, by David Fincher, 1999), appropriated some points of Freudian psychoanalytic theory, drawing parallels that explain the feeling of discomfort that modern man feels in the face of frustration caused by the consumerist appeal. Originally this study was published in printed format, in the UNORP Journal (vol. 7, p. 117-129, year 2004), under the title The Fight Club Movie: a Triadic Paradox in the Light of Freud's Thought. Since then, the film work analyzed has become extremely studied by other researchers and revisited by the various traditional media and streaming media. In 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a need to strengthen the digital repositories of the State University of Minas Gerais, Frutal Unit, with impact studies on imagery content, thus allowing better conditions for access to students to the teaching materials of remote classes during social isolation. In this way, we adapted the writing to the postulates of the new spelling that became effective in 2011, as well as, as far as possible, revised and updated some items of the discussion in the paper. Finally, it is worth remembering that in our text there were and still are points of contact with the works Totem and Tabu (1913/14), The Ego and the Id (1969), and The Malaise in Civilization (2002). As results to the first publication expected and still possible in this reissue, we suggest a comparison of these contents with those involving the verbal language, the moving image and the theoretical language of psychoanalysis, emphasizing the cognitive and theoretical character of approximation between such premises and the dictates of cultural semiotics.