A Psychoanalytic Inquiry into Sexual Acting-Out and Trauma Repetition : A Film Analysis of 〈Black Snake Moan〉

Key Points

• This inquiry aims to reinterpret sexual acting-out behaviors following childhood trauma through psychoanalytic theories.
• Analyzed the film Black Snake Moan as a clinical text.
• Applied Freud's repetition compulsion, object relations theory, and Lacan's concept of symbolization failure.
• Critically assessed traditional models linking sexual acting-out to addiction and impulse control issues.
• Identified that repetitive sexual behaviors signal unprocessed trauma returning through the body.
• Showed that these behaviors represent structural phenomena reenacted within current relationships.
• Proposed a clinical and ethical perspective on sexual acting-out as a limited survival strategy rather than pure pathology.