Word: hatefulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this film, Pasolini's eighty-year-old mother, with whom he lived all his life, plays the Virgin Mary. Their love-hate relationship was an extreme example of a very common psychological problem among Italian men: "il mamma-ismo." For Pasolini the situation was intensified by the fact that he never loved another woman. He was repelled by women's bodies and pregnancy filled him with horror. As he wrote to Oriana Fallaci: "I don't want to know what's in a woman's belly. Motherood disgusts me." Pasolini cultivated masculinity; he exercized every day, kept himself strong, virile...
...social conditioning; it was impossible for him to forget the Church, to break the emotional stranglehold his mother had on him, to give up the luxuries and power his success brought him. And the fact that he ultimately failed in his efforts to sublimate his feelings of guilt, alienation, hate and desire into art enabled educated Italians to identify more closely with...
...myth. In his prose he used Biblical forms such as the parable, and frequently quoted Christ. He preserved an Old Testament belief that the body was foul and that women were evil. (In his Hell, the demons are women.) Pasolini wanted to be a Christ-figure, to have everyone hate him and crucify him, while he took their sins upon himself, thervby redeeming all sinners. This was his personal answer. To the public he offered a vision with no resolution but faith: the stark picture of his most artistic film Il Vangelo Secondo Matteo (The Gospel According to Matthew...
Pasolini acutely analyzed the psychic conflicts of the intellectual Italian even as he lived them. Magnified by his artistic sensibility, these problems become universal Pasolini's neuroses were Italian versions of man's traumas. The alienation of birth, the love-hate dialectic of sex, the conflict of principles and suppressed desires; these are all part of the angst of human existence. Oriana Fallaci, and other friends of Pasolini, have said he wanted to die, and to die the kind of violent death he did. Certainly the abyss fascinated him. He sought the dangerous, the sordid, with passion. He loved...
Caroline Kennedy '80 invites her freshman classmates on a "Get to Know You" cruise aboard the Onassis yacht. "I mean, don't you just hate mixers?" she says...