Fight Club: la pelea por la identidad
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2014-04-03
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artículo original
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López Get, Anthony
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Universidad de Costa Rica
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El presente estudio analiza los procesos de construcción de identidad en las sociedades de consumo expuestos en el filme Fight Club de David Fincher. Partiendo de la propuesta de Habermas sobre la individuación por medio de la socialización, vemos cómo esta película explora los efectos que la cultura material ejerce sobre los sujetos en su búsqueda por una identidad validada por el resto de la sociedad, una sociedad de consumo que construye identidades ficticias, simulacros –haciendo eco de Baudrillard- que tienen su base en objetos, no en sujetos. La cultura material provee a los objetos de significados más allá de la mera utilidad real; se tornan símbolos de estatus, representaciones de un yo acorde con las expectativas colectivas. Fincher nos presenta a su personaje principal como un individuo cuya identidad ha sido desmantelada y suplantada por símbolos materiales, y que busca, por medio del caos generado por su álter ego, encontrar una identidad “real” fuera del simulacro de existencia que le ha sido impuesto.
The present study analyzes the processes of construction of identity in consumerist societies, as exposed in David Fincher’s film Fight Club. Based on Habermas’ proposal on the individuation by means of socialization, we see how Fincher’s film explores the effects that the material culture exerts over the subjects in search of a fictitious identity, simulacra, echoing Baudrillard, based on objects, not subjects. The material culture provides objects with signification beyond their mere utility; they become symbols of status, representations of a self according to the collective expectations. Fincher presents the main character as an individual whose identity has been dismantled and substituted for material symbols, and who looks, by means of the mayhem generated by his alter-ego, to find a “real” identity outside the simulacrum of existence imposed on him.
The present study analyzes the processes of construction of identity in consumerist societies, as exposed in David Fincher’s film Fight Club. Based on Habermas’ proposal on the individuation by means of socialization, we see how Fincher’s film explores the effects that the material culture exerts over the subjects in search of a fictitious identity, simulacra, echoing Baudrillard, based on objects, not subjects. The material culture provides objects with signification beyond their mere utility; they become symbols of status, representations of a self according to the collective expectations. Fincher presents the main character as an individual whose identity has been dismantled and substituted for material symbols, and who looks, by means of the mayhem generated by his alter-ego, to find a “real” identity outside the simulacrum of existence imposed on him.
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artículo -- Universidad de Costa Rica. Escuela de Lenguas Modernas, 2013
Palabras clave
American films, cine estadounidense, identity, individuation, consumerist society, individuación, sociedad de consumo