Resumen de La sintesi politica ed esistenziale nell’"Orestiade" di Pasolini
This paper aims to explore the link between the political progression and the psychoanalytic one in Pasolini’s Oresteia translation (1960): the political synthesis between an archaic world and its antithesis towards a new civic order (symbolized by the change of the Furies in Eumenides) is the same as the psychoanalytic synthesis among obsession, love and joy, assured by the Reason, symbolized by Athena. The discussion is led by a philological analysis of the semantic shifting between the Aeschylus’ text, through the French translation of P. Mazon (which Pasolini used as a basis to translate) and the specific language of Pasolini’s translation. The effort underlines the complete coincidence of the two levels, the political and the psychoanalytic one, underlined in the trilogy and materialized in the personal evolution of Orestes. The ‘sequel’ tragedy Pilade, proposes a different point of view: the synthesis is not possible anymore. Hence, a political (fascism, neo-capitalism) and psychoanalytic (Pilade’s inaction) failure occurres; Athena’s ‘inspired’ Reason (that involves the legacy of the Frankfurt’s school debate) collapses.
