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It is almost hard to believe that 2002 happened twenty years ago, and so much has changed! That was the year I graduated from university, I was a young psychologist eager to put everything I had learned into practice. Little did I know that all the knowledge I had acquired along years of hard work, and that I was so proud of, would be challenged so quickly. Technology has altered innumerous aspects of our daily lives, including the meaning of ‘friend’, ‘meeting’, ‘follow’, and so many other words, attitudes and thoughts. And it has changed psychology too.

In 1965, Jacques Lacan suggested that the artist precedes the psychoanalyst¹, as their work brings to light reactions, thoughts and feelings that would otherwise remain unknown. In this stunning movie by American director Stanley Kubrick, every scene seems to be carefully designed to captivate, starting from the choice of main actors, Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman. At that time, the couple embodied the Hollywood ideal of beauty, sex appeal and success, which, in itself, probably brought some of the audience to the movie…

Esses dias eu soube que vou ter uma filha. O nome dela vai ser Lua. Sei que Lua não é um nome comum, mas não muitas coisas são mais bonitas do que a lua. Muito antes de Lua sequer ser concebida, eu e minha esposa (então namorada) já queríamos a Lua.