Le tracce di un passato ancestrale: mito e storia in Pier Paolo Pasolini

In a context of comparative theory this essay focuses on the myth of childhood in Pier Paolo Pasolini’s work. By analyzing his Friulan period in some of his films and several dreams, it can be noticed how some recurrent symbols of his work, realize that desire of retrogradation backward to barbarism, represented by his mother through a psychoanalytical perspective. The aim of the present dissertation is to present how Friuli is a constant presence in all Pasolini’s activity. For this persistence the poet shows a great interest in the past and in the otherness, embodied by the boys of Casarsa, the lowest among the roman classes and the poorest from the Third World. In this way Pasolini appears to the reader in all its phenomenological complexity, that only in virtue of the «concrete imagination» it can be made more clear.