"Chlew" albo wybór Juliana
"Pigsty" or Julian’s choice

Pier Paolo Pasolini towards drives and their fate

Author(s): Szymon Wróbel
Subject(s): Cultural history
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: drive; desire; truth; compulsion; self-knowledge; freedom; choice
Summary/Abstract: The text is an attempt to think through the famous film and play by Pier Paolo Pasolini entitled The Pigsty. The author focuses mainly on the mystery of Julian and his desires. Julian is neither a rebel nor a conformist, neither a revolutionary nor a reactionary. Julian is a refugee from the bourgeois world in search of other love objects that are not culturally defined and expected. The concepts of desire and drive are considered in the text in a philosophical and psychoanalytic context, thanks to references to concepts proposed by Spinoza, Freud and Lacan. The author of the text also tries to think through Julian’s subjective structure, comparing it to the subjective structure of Hamlet. Finally, conclusions are drawn about freedom and coercion in choosing the object of desire.

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