Edipo tragico, Edipo precario: Successione, eredità e immaginario della crisi in Game of Thrones
Abstract
Il paper propone una lettura complessiva della serie TV Game of Thrones in chiave di grande narrazione contemporanea in cui si intrecciano e si riconfigurano temi e forme tipici dei generi epico e tragico.
Attraverso l’analisi delle principali linee narrative si mostrerà come la serie porti in scena un’originale versione del conflitto edipico. Meccanismo di tensione per antonomasia tra le generazioni, e problematico crocevia tra aspirazioni individuali e norme collettive, esso permette di indagare il ruolo dell’individuo in relazione al nucleo familiare di appartenenza e alle più ampie dinamiche sociali, e assume un ruolo cardine all’interno di una narrazione seriale programmaticamente incentrata sulla lotta per la successione dinastica e la gestione del potere.
Si mostrerà come la particolare declinazione del tema edipico di questa serie TV entra potentemente in risonanza con le peculiari dinamiche della crisi e della precarizzazione dell’esistenza che caratterizzano l’epoca contemporanea.
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