The Ascension into the Real World: Prâslea the Brave and the Golden Apples (Petre Ispirescu)
The Ascension into the Real World: Prâslea the Brave and the Golden Apples (Petre Ispirescu)

Summary/Abstract: : In folk tales, I have rediscovered the joy of evasion. In order to truly understand tales, we have to resort to the unconscious, to the things “we know, but we don’t know that we know”, according to Slavoj Zizek’s phrasing. They have to be brought to light. In “Prâslea the Brave and the Golden Apples”, from Petre Ispirescu’s collection, the hero’s journey will involve both the regression to the earth’s belly and the return trip to the world of origin. His ascent will be as dangerous as the descent, involving the presence of an auxiliary animal, the mother eagle. Prâslea is the civilising hero, the one making Cosmic the space that belonged to Chaos. "The journey to the centre" leads him to a spectral, intermundian space, which eludes both inner and outer reality. From here, the hero starts on his self-knowledge journey that includes a descent into the "chaotic preontological reality".

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