Taking its cue from Freud’s analogy between the unconscious and the Underworld, this paper argues that Lucretius’ theory of dreams enables the description of the katabasis in book 6 of the Aeneid as a dream-like experience. As he meets Dido and Deiphobus, Aeneas thus adumbrates the fears and desires that preside over his negotiations with the past.
Acheronta movebo. Virgil's Freudian underworld / Schiesaro, Alessandro. - In: STUDI ITALIANI DI FILOLOGIA CLASSICA. - ISSN 0039-2987. - 112:Quarta serie, Volume 17, fascicolo 2(2019), pp. 204-251. [10.1400/275057]
Acheronta movebo. Virgil's Freudian underworld
Alessandro Schiesaro
2019
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Taking its cue from Freud’s analogy between the unconscious and the Underworld, this paper argues that Lucretius’ theory of dreams enables the description of the katabasis in book 6 of the Aeneid as a dream-like experience. As he meets Dido and Deiphobus, Aeneas thus adumbrates the fears and desires that preside over his negotiations with the past.File allegati a questo prodotto
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