Freudian Model and Historical Contents: The Courtly-Chivalric love code Between “La Celestina” and “Quijote”

  • Antonio Gargano University of Naples Federico II
DOI: https://doi.org/10.6093/sigma.v0i3.6583
Keywords: comicality, Witz, Celestina, Quijote, conception of courtly-chivalric love

Abstract

By using a special configurations of the theoretical model of “compromise formation” (F. Orlando) that is the Witz (S. Freud), the present work deals with the love conception of two masterpieces of Spanish literature of the early modern age, La Celestina (1499) and Quijote (1605-1615), in order to show how the two works mentioned, at a distance of about a century from each other, present a phenomenon of reversibility in the relationship of funniness and Witz, in meaning that the same historically determined content can act as a moment of non-identification, comic and repressive in La Celestina, while acts as a moment of identification with the prohibited and forbidden content, that is the repressed, in Quijote.     

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Author Biography

Antonio Gargano, University of Naples Federico II

Antonio Gargano is full professor of Spanish literature at the University of Naples Federico II. His studies focus mainly on Spanish literature of the modern age, from the age of “Re Cattolici” to the early seventeenth century. He has recently edited the edition of the Lazarillo de Tormes (Venice, 2017) and he is preparing a volume of studies on Fernando de Rojas’ La Celestina.

Published
2019-12-27
How to Cite
GarganoA. (2019). Freudian Model and Historical Contents: The Courtly-Chivalric love code Between “La Celestina” and “Quijote”. SigMa - Rivista Di Letterature Comparate, Teatro E Arti Dello Spettacolo, (3), 409-446. https://doi.org/10.6093/sigma.v0i3.6583
Issue
No 3 (2019): The forms and the days. Representations of everyday life in literature, audiovisual, visual and performing arts
Section
Monographic section II

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