Pasolini

Un poeta maldito en la encrucijada de sus edipos

Abstract

In this article the author's purpose is to reflect about the great italian poet and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini through the analysis of three "oedipical" dimensions presented in his life and production. Two of them refer to his artistical creations. On the one hand his well-known adaptation of Oedipus the King (1967) of Sophocles, and on the other hand, his theatrical drama Fabulations (Affabulazione), of 1966. This second one has received much less diffusion than the first and is nothing but a provocative and singular paraphrase of the myth. To analyze these creations which are contemporary among themselves, the "Pasolini-creative author" is taken as a third essential dimension: the considerations regarding "Pasolini-psychical-subject", his story, an the fluctuations of his own oedipical itinerary, as structural and constitutive as existence. That is to say, his Oedipical-structure and Oedípical-phase. The analysis made in this article supposes a very complex net in which all threads are being knitted showing with light and shadows, and sometimes only twilight, the overwhelming strength of the creative process.