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...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-looking, tough. Yet he wanted to play the woman in his sexual encounters. Socialized into a completely dominating role, the Italian male...
...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 New York because he saw it as "a war you go to to kill...
...your interview with Journalist Oriana Fallaci [Oct. 20], I was shocked that she referred to me as a "dishonest woman journalist" because I once wrote that she had had three miscarriages. And I was even more shocked that TIME would print such a scurrilous remark...
...Oriana Fallaci...
...been charged that you fabricate quotations. You've been called Oriana Fallacious...