Giovanni Segantini: un mito mediatico della Belle Époque. Dalla stampa internazionale contemporanea alla psicanalisi (1890-1920)

Segantini was at once a David Copperfield, an orphan born in poverty, and a noble savage who returned from big-city life to the pure areas of the high mountains from which he came. Stylized during his lifetime as a shepherd or a peasant, albeit one of noble origins, or as a modern, nervous individua...

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Published in:Annali della Scuola normale superiore di Pisa, Classe di lettere e filosofia Classe di lettere e filosofia, 2016-01, Vol.8 (2), p.333-830
Main Author: Zimmermann, Michael F.
Format: Article
Language:Italian
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La grafica, i testi e le immagini tra Otto e Novecento: dagli artisti agli scrittori, atraverso i periodici
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Summary:Segantini was at once a David Copperfield, an orphan born in poverty, and a noble savage who returned from big-city life to the pure areas of the high mountains from which he came. Stylized during his lifetime as a shepherd or a peasant, albeit one of noble origins, or as a modern, nervous individual tormented by hallucinatory fantasies, his death was read as an ultimate fulfillment. In 1911, Karl Abraham interpreted Segantini's end as resulting from an unconscious will to return to his maternal origins, before Sigmund Freud, in 1920, "dared" to conceive of a will to death and to insert the vital force of Eros into a tension with the opposed principle, Thanatos. From the very beginning, Segantini's life was coded as a media myth. The article is written as a case study for the analysis of myth in the mass media, inscribed into a dialectic field that spans authentication and fiction, self-reflection and immersion.
ISSN:0392-095X