Cinema and the “feelings disease”

A therapeutic path through film narratives

Abstract

This work aims to provide a path through film narratives as a tool for feeling education: the main target is the school activity of educators and psychologists for teens. Every psychic and relational discomfort can be traced back to a lack of feelings expression. The work intends to show how narration in cinema has focused this issue generating in recent times “therapeutic” evidence of being-in-the-world. Film narratives show that a satisfying bond with people, things and places should not be sought in the effectiveness of acting but in a new way of feeling.