À travers l’analyse et l’interpretation de films du panorama italien et international des années cinquante jusqu’à aujourd’hui, ce travail vise à éclairer le fonctionnement et les modalités esthétiques et perceptives d’activation de la jouissance dans le dispositif cinématographique sur la base du tout dernier enseignement de Jacques Lacan.Après un étude soigné du concept de jouissance dans la psychanalyse lacanienne – un concept qu’il faut entendre en opposition à celui de plaisir, et en conflit permanent avec celui de désir, deux fondements de la théorie psychanalythique du cinéma – on relèvera l’insuffisance du régime scopique dans la situation de jouissance cinématographique, où grâce à l’entrée en jeu du corps, la dimension d’absence, de perte et d’inaccessibilité caractérisant le cinéma et son signifiant, se fait remplacer par une condition très marquée de materialité et de surplus de presence. Ça nous oblige à une révision partielle voire à une relecture generale des théories psychanalythiques classiques du cinéma, en remettant en question les processus mȇmes d’identification, croyance, voyeurisme et plaisir vecus par le spectateur , dont le corps ne peut plus être pensé uniquement dans sa composante imaginaire, mais aussi dans sa dimension organique et physiologique, qui est néanmoins présente dans la conception lacanienne de la jouissance. Ce travail est composé par une première partie théorique, où on analysera la genèse et le déroulement général de la notion de jouissance dans la pensée lacanienne et dans le dispositif cinématographique, et par une deuxième partie plus analytique, où on présentera des exemples de films particulièrement interessés par l’action de la jouissance. / Through an indepth analysis and interpretation of selected Italian and International films from of the 1950s to the present, this thesis intends to shed light on the possible mechanism of lacanian jouissance activated and enabled by cinematographic devices.Taking into consideration the teachings of Lacan, we will explore if it is possible to formulate a “theory of jouissance” in cinema. Starting with a detailed study of the concept of jouissance in lacanian psychoanalysis, followed by an examination of cinematic dispositif, we will highlight the inadequacies of the scopic regime in the cinematographic situation of jouissance. According to Lacan, when jouissance appears, body comes into play in its organic, physiological and clinical component, so that an excess of materiality and presence replace the state of absence, stillness and inaccessibility generally associated to the cinema and its signifier. It is therefore crucial to think about jouissance as a concept in complete opposition to that of pleasure and in permanent conflict with that of desire, the two cornerstones of psychoanalytical theory of the cinema. This calls for a thorough revision of classical studies in cinema and psychoanalysis. / Attraverso l’interpretazione e l’analisi di alcuni film del panorama italiano ed internazionale dagli anni Cinquanta ad oggi, la mia tesi si propone di mettere in luce il funzionamento dei possibili meccanismi di godimento (jouissance) attivati e attivabili dal dispositivo cinematografico sulla base dell’insegnamento dell’ultimo Jacques Lacan.Partendo da uno studio accurato di tale concetto nella psicoanalisi lacaniana – concetto da intendersi fondamentalmente in opposizione a quello di piacere e in conflitto permanente con quello di desiderio: due capisaldi della teoria psicoanalitica del cinema – sarà evidenziata l’insufficienza del regime scopico nella situazione di godimento cinematografico dal momento che, quando c’è jouissance, subentra il corpo, e il regime dell'eccesso di presenza viene a sostituire quello (tradizionalmente connesso al cinema e al suo significante) della mancanza e dell'inaccessibilità. Ne conseguirà una parziale revisione e un generale ripensamento delle teorie psicoanalitiche classiche del cinema, accompagnata da una rilettura dei procedimenti stessi di identificazione, credenza, voyeurismo e piacere, prendendo in considerazione lo stato percettivo di uno spettatore il cui corpo non è più limitato alla sua (pur fondamentale) componente immaginaria, ma va inteso anche nella sua dimensione organico-fisiologica. Ad una prima parte teorica, incentrata sulle dinamiche generali del godimento nella teoria lacaniana e nel dispositivo cinematografico, seguirà una parte più analitica in cui le meccaniche della jouissance verranno analizzate in rapporto ad alcuni film particolarmente debitori alle forme e a ai luoghi principali del godimento.

When literary movements do not grow out of specific groups who adopt a name fort heir endeavors, they have usually been named to refer to certain stylistic features. Such is the case with "Decadence," a rubric referring to specific poets in turn-of-thecentury France. Most extant work on the artists of decadent literature focuses on its stylistic elements and narrative tropes: their reaction against the image of artist/creator from Romanticism, to cast the artist as egotist; their plea for art's autonomy (as well as for art for art's sake and for the artist as society's outsider); and their idea that art must be sensationalist and melodramatic, bizarre, perverse, exotic, or artificial to make an impact. What is overlooked in traditional approaches to decadent literature is its own frequent claims to social critique, toward which Julia Kristeva points in the un-translated second half of her Revolution in Poetic Language (1974). Moreover, much decadent literature emerges at a historical moment in which a ruling class is under fire; the typical "decadent" work portrays the decline of a class, and the possible repercussions of that deconstruction for the individuals in it. To approach the literature of fin de siècle decadence as social critique, this project considers three novels taken as the three bibles of the decadent movement in French, Italian and English literatures: Huysmans' A rebours (1884), D'Annunzio's own recreation of A rebours, his own Il piacere (1889), and Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891). I will argue that, in this era of emergent modernism, decadent literature tries to claim a more resistant and social critical position from within class structure than does modernism, and that decadent literature, despite its superficial affinities with the Romanticism to which modernism also refers, not only is a literature of the struggle of the individual against an uncaring social world, but also underscores the necessity of reconstructing the hero/narrator's ego, as his identity reflects a class position which must be altered if it is to remain viable. / text