Fracasos del fantasma en adultos mayores institucionalizados : análisis de la película el agente topo.

Abstract

Psychological care for the well-being of older adults is a topic of growing interest. In this qualitative study, the bibliographic-hermeneutic method was used to describe how the conditions of biopsychosocial environment of institutionalized older adults might be related to a temporary failure of the Phantom, a concept taken from Freudian-Lacanian psychoanalytic theory. As a result, the biopsychosocial conditions of the elderly, the manifestations of the stable functioning of the Phantom and its fainting, were characterized. The findings were illustrated by analyzing the documentary The Mole Agent. It was concluded that, although certain characteristics of the environment may incite an occasional failure of the Phantom in older adults, they are not the determining factor. The disarrangement of the phallic signifiers and the unrestricted jouissance of the Other over the subject were identify as risk conditions. The need for a clinical assessment of each case was highlighted and it was made an invitation to consider the concept of occasional failure of the Phantom as a possible cause of certain subjective manifestations of older adults such as inhibition, deep sadness, anguish and cadaverization of the body.