Hermeneutical issues on Oedipux Rex of Pasolini
Abstract
Based on the analysis of some hermeneutical issues in the film Oedipus Rex, it is argued that one of the central aspects of Pasolini's critique of society is the breaking and entering of symbolic property. In doing so, this paper will refer to the consequent homologation of consumer society that manifests itself as a loss of the sacred. Along these lines, some theoretical questions are analysed in relation to Pasolini's thought on cinema, and it is argued that this breaking and entering of symbolic property is a condition for the possibility of "the political" in our time.
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