A Sleepless Dream: Religion and Religion Critique in Pasolini’s Teorema
Religion plays a crucial role in the critical dimension of Pasolini’s movies (The Gospel according to St-Matthew, Teorema, Medea, Notes for an African Oresteia, and others). Yet the religion performed there is a thoroughly ‘pagan’ religion, a religion that is itself not critical at all. The question...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Univ.
2017
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ThéoRèmes
Year: 2017, Volume: 10 |
| Further subjects: | B
Pasolini
B Mythical thinking B pagan religion B Rationality B Monotheism B Death of God B Criticism |
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| Summary: | Religion plays a crucial role in the critical dimension of Pasolini’s movies (The Gospel according to St-Matthew, Teorema, Medea, Notes for an African Oresteia, and others). Yet the religion performed there is a thoroughly ‘pagan’ religion, a religion that is itself not critical at all. The question to be raised is why Pasolini does not refer to the ‘monotheistic’ kind of religion, which is critical - and even religion critical - in its core. The article tries to develop an answer to that question by means of patient and profound reflection upon Pasolini’s definition of ‘God’ (in Teorema) as “a dream that allows no sleep and from which one cannot waken”. |
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| ISSN: | 1664-0136 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: ThéoRèmes
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.4000/theoremes.917 |