The wire. A profane illumination
- Autores: Juan Pablo Duarte
- Localización: Revista española de drogodependencias, ISSN 0213-7615, Nº. 48, 2, 2023 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Imaginarios sociales de las adicciones en las series: representaciones de la hipermodernidad), págs. 114-121
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
Considered the best television series of the 21st century, The Wire stages the city of Baltimore, one of the most violent in the world, taking the cheap drug industry as its central axis. The dynamics to which this illegal economy gives rise serves as a matrix in fiction to understand the institutions of contemporary cities and the current context of the social bond. Methodology: Taking as reference the social texts of Sigmund Freud and the critical review carried out by Jacques-Alain Miller based on the work of Jacques Lacan, this article addresses the function of the toxic in this series from current discussions in the psychoanalytic field. Results: It is possible to corroborate that the drug culture to which David Simon refers on several occasions implies a push to obtain a plus as the main horizon of his characters and institutions of which they are a part. The reading proposed in this article suggests that this cultural mutation can be analyzed from the notion of object plus jouissance proposed by Jacques Lacan.
