Myth and Psychoanalysis in Edipo Re by Pier Paolo Pasolini
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Univerzita Komenského v Bratislave, 2021
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Greek and Roman antiquity together with the ancient myths represent
important part of European heritage, with all the dynamic aspects that this term
bears. It goes about discursive practice that has powerful potential for choosing
and using something from the past in order to produce meanings in presence.
Perceived and constructed as a common European cradle, antiquity is specific,
being shaped and reshaped in different periods and parts of Europe with different (ideological) aims. One of the most durable traces of ancient myths are found
in psychology and psychoanalytical theory, which is directly related to the times
of its development, that coincided with the fascination with antiquity and archaeological discoveries of the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth
century. Almost everybody is familiar with Oedipus complex, but only critical
academic approach to classics and myths point to the fact that when we talk
about famous theory of Freud it does not go abo...ut interpretation of ancient myths
in ancient context, but about their re-invention. This question of Freud’s usage
of the famous myth and its reading out of ancient context was discussed in the
1960ies by French anthropologist of ancient worlds Jean-Pierre Vernant. Almost
at the same time, Pier Paolo Pasolini approached the same question in his famous
film Edipo Re (1967). The focus of this paper will be film by Pasolini and his
artistic application of Freud’s theory to the ancient myth, which opens numerous
questions important for the contextualisation and usage of myth both in ancient
as well as in contemporary context.
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Oedipus / Sophocles / Freud / Pasolini / psychoanalysisSource:
Ethnologia Slovaca et Slavica, 2021, 42, 45-60Publisher:
- Bratislava : Univerzita Komenského, Filozofickú fakultu
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Етнографски институт САНУ / Institute of Ethnography SASATY - JOUR AU - Stevanović, Lada PY - 2021 UR - https://fphil.uniba.sk/fileadmin/fif/katedry_pracoviska/ketn/Aktualne/Ethnologia_Slovaca_et_Slavica_42_2021.pdf UR - https://dais.sanu.ac.rs/123456789/10744 AB - Greek and Roman antiquity together with the ancient myths represent important part of European heritage, with all the dynamic aspects that this term bears. It goes about discursive practice that has powerful potential for choosing and using something from the past in order to produce meanings in presence. Perceived and constructed as a common European cradle, antiquity is specific, being shaped and reshaped in different periods and parts of Europe with different (ideological) aims. One of the most durable traces of ancient myths are found in psychology and psychoanalytical theory, which is directly related to the times of its development, that coincided with the fascination with antiquity and archaeological discoveries of the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century. Almost everybody is familiar with Oedipus complex, but only critical academic approach to classics and myths point to the fact that when we talk about famous theory of Freud it does not go about interpretation of ancient myths in ancient context, but about their re-invention. This question of Freud’s usage of the famous myth and its reading out of ancient context was discussed in the 1960ies by French anthropologist of ancient worlds Jean-Pierre Vernant. Almost at the same time, Pier Paolo Pasolini approached the same question in his famous film Edipo Re (1967). The focus of this paper will be film by Pasolini and his artistic application of Freud’s theory to the ancient myth, which opens numerous questions important for the contextualisation and usage of myth both in ancient as well as in contemporary context. PB - Bratislava : Univerzita Komenského, Filozofickú fakultu T2 - Ethnologia Slovaca et Slavica T1 - Myth and Psychoanalysis in Edipo Re by Pier Paolo Pasolini SP - 45 EP - 60 VL - 42 UR - https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_dais_10744 ER -
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Stevanović, L.. (2021). Myth and Psychoanalysis in Edipo Re by Pier Paolo Pasolini. in Ethnologia Slovaca et Slavica Bratislava : Univerzita Komenského, Filozofickú fakultu., 42, 45-60. https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_dais_10744
Stevanović L. Myth and Psychoanalysis in Edipo Re by Pier Paolo Pasolini. in Ethnologia Slovaca et Slavica. 2021;42:45-60. https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_dais_10744 .
Stevanović, Lada, "Myth and Psychoanalysis in Edipo Re by Pier Paolo Pasolini" in Ethnologia Slovaca et Slavica, 42 (2021):45-60, https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_dais_10744 .