Put politics, ethics and aesthetics in crisis

This work psychoanalytically analyzes Pasolini’s posthumous film, inspired by the novel The 120 Days of Sodom, by the Marquis de Sade. Theplot presents the increscendo of violence, which the Italian filmmaker sets in a completely different framework from the original. It is the end ofthe Second Worl...

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Main Author: Bernateau, Isée
Format: Online
Language:spa
Published: Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios sobre Cultura y Sociedad 2020
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Online Access:https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/eticaycine/article/view/29208
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Summary:This work psychoanalytically analyzes Pasolini’s posthumous film, inspired by the novel The 120 Days of Sodom, by the Marquis de Sade. Theplot presents the increscendo of violence, which the Italian filmmaker sets in a completely different framework from the original. It is the end ofthe Second World War in Italy, during the Salo Republic, created by Mussolini in northern Italy between September 1943 and April 1945. From thisscenario, the category of the unrepresentable Real is approached as Nazi death camps metaphor.