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Some introductory notes for a psychoanalytic literature of “The Simpsons”

Abstract

In an excursus on the psychoanalytic literature that has addressed the relationship between creativity and art, the authors want to highlight how the animated sitcom “The Simpsons” can now be configured as an artistic production of high symbolic value can provide significant explanatory models, suitable to “read” like a case or of a literary classic, precise dynamic unconscious. This reflection is emphasized as ways of expressing the popular series will serve as a record and a language more refined than those normally offered by the television production that enable reading and interpretive possibilities similar to those offered by the film industry.

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