{"id":6314,"date":"2023-06-15T20:37:54","date_gmt":"2023-06-15T18:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pipol11.pipolcongres.eu\/2023\/06\/15\/une-sortie-de-lage-du-pere-selon-ruben-ostlund-elisabeth-marion\/"},"modified":"2023-06-15T23:41:40","modified_gmt":"2023-06-15T21:41:40","slug":"ruben-ostlunds-exit-from-the-age-of-the-father-elisabeth-marion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pipol11.pipolcongres.eu\/en\/2023\/06\/15\/ruben-ostlunds-exit-from-the-age-of-the-father-elisabeth-marion\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruben \u00d6stlund\u2019s exit from the age of the father \u2013 \u00c9lisabeth Marion<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Force Majeure<\/em>, a 2014 film directed and written by Ruben \u00d6stlund, a Swedish family,<\/p>\n

Tomas, Ebba and their two children, are at a ski resort in the French Alps[1]<\/a>. The holiday is supposed to be a chance for the family to get together, as the father is often away at work. An avalanche occurs \u2013\u00a0a real that \u00d6stlund depicts through a white screen and loud sounds.<\/p>\n

When the avalanche occurs, Ebba cannot escape with her children, she stays with them. Tomas, on the other hand grabs his smartphone and runs away. From running away from work to running away from the avalanche, he is not where he is expected to be. According to Freud, the earth\u2019s glaciation has produced a universally anxious humanity[2]<\/a> which \u00c9ric Laurent translates in terms of anxiety of the real: the paternal function for Freud protected against this anguish of the real[3]<\/a>. Tomas is not a Freudian father. This film is situated in the era of the exit from the age of the father, highlighted by Jacques-Alain Miller[4]<\/a>.This avalanche makes \u201cthe cracking of old conformisms\u201d heard[5]<\/a>. Tomas cannot present himself as a hero. Tormented by his symptom of impotence, he saves his skin, but his desire is not there: \u201cI am a victim of my own instinct\u201d, he says. He cannot recognise himself in this coward, and therefore he cannot expose himself to the demonstration of his castration as his wife wants. Ebba insists. As he filmed the avalanche, he unknowingly filmed his own debacle. This cinematographic finding stages the return of the repressed for him. What was it like for Ebba before the avalanche? She was lulled by the image of a father who would be present and able to cope. But the avalanche cracked the image. If, for Freud, the function of the father is to protect against the anguish of the real, for Lacan his function is to \u00e9<\/em>-pater<\/em>[6]<\/a>. Tomas no longer impresses his wife. Driven to confess, he cries out that he is disappointed in himself, in his cowardice and in his lies.<\/p>\n

Following this confession, R.\u00a0\u00d6stlund presents a restoration of semblants, which appear from the outset to be tainted with the looming fiasco. The family goes skiing. Ebba disappears in the fog and Tomas goes looking for her, leaving the children alone. He thus accomplishes, in a climate of anxiety, the long-awaited rescue. It is through this pantomime that he regains virile semblance. The white screen of fog echoes the memory of the avalanche, but it is no longer a depiction of the real, it is the smoke screen of the imaginary, blurred, inconsistent.<\/p>\n

The cries, the screams, the confession have not given rise to an exchange of words. In this film, what R.\u00a0\u00d6stlund suggests for managing the real is the fog: to continue on the road without knowing in advance, to annul the moment of seeing the avalanche produced before. The film forms a loop: at the beginning and at the end Ebba puts up with this man who leaves his children alone in the fog, mistaken for \u201cthe most handsome man in the bar\u201d, but whose phallic brilliance is unconvincing: he can be ridiculed.<\/p>\n

References from the author:
\n[1]<\/a> \u00d6stlund R., Force Majeure<\/em>, film, Sweden, France, Office coproduction, 2014.
\n[2]<\/a> Freud S., A Phylogenetic Fantasy: Overview of the Transference Neuroses. Edited by I. Grubrich-Simitis (Frankfurt: S. Fischer Verlag, 1985). Translated by A. and P. Hoffer. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press. 1987.
\n[3]<\/a> Cf. Laurent \u00c9., \u00ab\u00a0Le Nom-du-P\u00e8re entre r\u00e9alisme et nominalisme\u00a0\u00bb, La Cause freudienne<\/em>, n\u00b060, June 2005, p.\u00a0136-137.
\n[4]<\/a> Cf. Miller J.-A., \u00ab\u00a0Sortir de l\u2019\u00e2ge du p\u00e8re\u00a0\u00bb, Lacan Web T\u00e9<\/em>l<\/em>\u00e9vision<\/em>, broadcast, 20 April 2013, available on the internet: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0S020Zoy9XQ<\/a>.
\n[5]<\/a> Miller J.-A., \u00ab\u00a0Sortir de l\u2019\u00e2ge du p\u00e8re\u00a0\u00bb, op.cit<\/em>.
\n[6]<\/a> Lacan J., The Seminar, book XIX, …or worse, Cambridge, Polity, 2018, p.\u00a0184.<\/p>\n

Translation: Robyn Adler
\nProofreading: C\u00e9dric Grolleau<\/p>\n

Picture : \u00a9 Pascale Simonet<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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