The Substance: an immersion into Bauman's universe of Consumption and the construction of the self
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1984-5057.v16i2e231309Keywords:
The Substance, Communication, Consumption, Human activity, PostmodernityAbstract
In a society where consumption has become one of the central pillars for the construction of an identity and a sense of “I”, the film The Substance metaphorically exposes the decline of an individual’s sense of self-worth as he or she fails to meet the image-based social expectations, and how the consumer industry finds, in this scenario, a market to be explored. This paper aims to draw a parallel between the topics addressed by the film and the concepts related to consumption and contemporary identity self-construction presented by Bauman in his works.
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A SUBSTÂNCIA. Direção de Coralie Fargeat. [S. l.]: Mubi, 2024.
BAUMAN, Zygmunt. O mal-estar da pós-modernidade. Rio de Janeiro: Zahar, 1998.
BAUMAN, Zygmunt. Vida líquida. Rio de Janeiro: Zahar, 2007.
LACAN, Jacques. O seminário, livro 11: os quatro conceitos fundamentais da psicanálise. Rio de Janeiro: Zahar, 1992.
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