In this work there are two fathers: Timur and the Emperor of China, both "noble and old." They share because their function and the psychological significance are similar. One , Timur, the old king is deposed, then weakened and weakened, the other Altoum, while still emperor, is powerless to his daughter that he has taken an oath crowds, making it complicit in crimes that would like to avoid but can not.
We see both implored the youth to desist from addressing the test. Timur relies unnecessarily on the paternal feeling ("Son, what are you doing? Do you want to die like this? ... You step on a poor heart that bleeds in vain for you ..."), not even hesitate to resort to the old weapon (usually maternal ) of emotional blackmail: "break my heart", the Emperor tries to get rid of the guilt ("Do I may die without bearing the weight of your young life") after the careless oath to his daughter . Both are not heard, confirming their impotence.
The reason for the old king now weakened (by age, illness or other) is a classic fairy tale and shows in a precise situation: an old dominant principle is running out, and must give way to a new order, a new scale of values. This step is never easy, sometimes it's long and painful (a severe chronic disease of kings), sometimes rapid (sudden and violent death of the king), but involves testing difficult, risky for everyone, especially for the new that must assert itself but also for the old man who does not want to give up. Sometimes you can renew without destroying the old (the search for water miraculous healing the old king), sometimes the change is more radical and drastic step (the old king must be killed).
As you can see, here is dotted with the theme of renewal, and I believe that this step is still in place: it is none other than to note the exhaustion of the old patriarchal model and work for its change. For some decades it is quite clear (the feminists have done much to highlight it), but the transition is more difficult than you think and regressions are always in action ...
But what will the new model? Obviously you can not predict the future, but the unconscious is already working for possible solutions and this story will is a prime example.
Seguiamone so closely developments because I believe that we will find the solution that is very nice and comforting. But this, you know, it's just a fairy tale and fairy tales almost always envisage a happy ending. And if we begin to read them more carefully and act on us?
The conflict between past and future, tradition and renewal (fathers and sons) is a source of constant tension because often adopts a dualistic mentality (in clear patriarchal monotheism), according to which there is only one truth and therefore a only one winner: either we defend vigorously the past entrenching reactionary positions, rejecting changes and bemoaning the "good old days ", or hurl themselves into an imagined future as uncritically wonderful and solver of all problems. Of course, these are extremist positions that serve to understand the problem most radical form, but the problem is and we should think about it.
conclude with two important quotations, one taken by a Western scientist, the other from the last great Indian philosopher and mystic. Eric K. Kandel, 2000 Nobel prize for medicine, writes: "We are what we are because of what we have learned and remember, "and Sri Aurobindo (1995):" Break the molds of the past, but keep intact its achievements and its spirit, otherwise you will not come. "
Click here for the text of "A terrible oath compels me."
EMPERORA dreadful oath compels me to abide by
dark pact.
And the holy scepter I hold
drips with blood.
Enough blood! Giovine, go '!
CALAF
Son of Heaven,
I beg you to try!
EMPEROR
Fa that I may die without
carry the weight of your young life!
CALAF
Son of Heaven,
I beg you to try!
EMPEROR
not want even that was filled with horror
the Palace and the world ...
CALAF
Son of Heaven, I beg you to let
test!
Director: Zubin Mehta
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