This article is an attempt to analyse the text ¿Qué haré yo con esta espada? (Aproximación a la Ley y al problema de la Belleza) by Angélica Liddell from the perspective of Erich Fromm's psychoanalysis, with particular focus on his concept of necrophilic orientation. The German psychoanalyst diagnosed this orientation in people fascinated by death, decay, disease, decomposition, who put material goods before human well-being and treated their fellow human beings in an instrumental, sadistic and destructive manner, being incapable of creating truly deep bonds based on Love. Liddell's works not only overflow with all these elements, but also try to convince the viewer that the dark vision of human beings presented on stage is the only true and possible one, despite the author's awareness that she suffers from a cognitive bias. We therefore approach this play, first presented in 2016, in which Liddell goes so far as to sing the praises of murderers and cannibals, from the perspective of psychopathology, with an emphasis on Fromm's necrophilic orientation.
University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland - ORCID: 0000-0003-1077-992X
Titolo del capitolo
Entre la licentia poetica y la psicopatología. ¿Qué haré yo con esta espada? (Aproximación a la Ley y al problema de la Belleza) de Angélica Liddell en diálogo con Erich Fromm
Autori
Ewelina Topolska
Lingua
Spanish
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0278-7.11
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Anno di pubblicazione
2023
Copyright
© 2023 Author(s)
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Licenza dei metadati
Titolo del libro
La violenza nel teatro contemporaneo
Sottotitolo del libro
Lingue e linguaggi a confronto
Curatori
Paola Bellomi, Carla Francellini, Maria Beatrice Lenzi, Ada Milani, Niccolò Scaffai
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Numero di pagine
152
Anno di pubblicazione
2023
Copyright
© 2023 Author(s)
Licenza d'uso
Licenza dei metadati
Editore
Firenze University Press, USiena Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0278-7
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0277-0
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0278-7
eISBN (epub)
979-12-215-0279-4
Collana
Studi di letterature moderne e comparate
ISSN della collana
2975-0377
e-ISSN della collana
2975-0229