Morte e luto: uma análise psicológica através do contexto da série WandaVision

Abstract

The present work aimed to address the theme of death and mourning using the television series WandaVision (2021) as a basis, which addresses mourning through the character Wanda Maximoff (the Scarlet Witch), bringing a psychological look at the issues of mourning and the representations of death shown in the series. For this, it started from the following problem: in what ways are death and mourning represented in WandaVision? As a hypothesis, it was assumed that mourning is a universal phenomenon and that it keeps its specificities, but that it is still considered a taboo for society, since few people talk about death and mourning in the social context. Therefore, the general objective of this work was to discuss the representations of death and mourning in WandaVision. The specific objectives presented were: to present the history of death, to highlight the contributions of psychology in grief and to present the five stages of grief based on the series. The theoretical foundation was based on bibliographical research, using books, articles and theses on the related topic, more precisely on the book by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross. The method used in this work was hypothetical-deductive and started from film analysis to analyze the scenes and correlate them with the theories of mourning. Finally, in the arc of the character Wanda Maximoff, a passage through the five stages of grief and also her experience of complicated grief was perceived, due to the losses she witnessed throughout her journey, triggering a process of grief that was not resignified and worked on, because Wanda was not able to elaborate the losses (physical and symbolic) in a more meaningful way, presenting harmful behaviors both for herself and for the people around her, entering a state of suffering.