The Archaic Feminine in Lars Von Trier`s Trilogy of Depression: Antichrist, Melancholy, Nymphomaniac. Psychoanalytic view

Student: Bozhko Katrina

Educational Programme: Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytical Psychotherapy (Master)

Year of Graduation: 2024

Lars Von Trier's "Depression Trilogy": Antichrist, Melancholia, Nymphomaniac is an outstanding work of cinema in which the director explores the dark sides of the human psyche. The films Antichrist, Melancholia and Nymphomaniac are graphic and uncompromising depictions of suffering, pain and the search for meaning in the chaos of the existence of the main characters. This trilogy combines fundamental themes for psychoanalytic research: archaic, archaic feminine, feminine, grief and melancholy. All three films reveal the complexity of women's fate, especially when it comes to female psychosexual development and separation from the maternal archaic imago with the subsequent formation of a phantasm about the primal scene.

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