Compreensão gestáltica do filme "Cisne Negro"

Abstract

The main objective of this work is to comprehend the film "Black Swan" from a Gestalt therapy perspective. To achieve that, a bibliographical research was conducted through books and scientific articles, while watching the film's content in a qualitative/descriptive way and associating general aspects of the plot with main concepts of the psychological approach. This was intended to understand the experience and behaviours of Nina, the protagonist, considering the whole context in which she was inserted, as well as her interaction with the people with whom she relates. The theoretical reflections on the film confirmed that presence and acceptance are essential conditions that allow considering the person's experience in a procedural and humanised perspective, while supporting the expression of their anguish and recognizing their potential and existential uniqueness. The gestalt conception of psychotic suffering, understood as a creative adjustment in which the examination of reality is compromised by the person's difficulty in differentiating himself from the world, conceives delusions and hallucinations as a way of dealing with the anguish, giving meaning and enabling the expression of experience, which can be be illustrated by several scenes of the protagonist Nina in her various interactions.