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GENTIAN VYSHKA, GËZIM BOÇARI
Faculty of Medicine, University of Tirana, Albania /
Medicinski fakultet, Sveučilište u Tirani, Albanija
TRADITIONAL DEPICTION AND EQUIVALENCIES
OF THE OEDIPAL COMPLEX
IN THE ALBANIAN POST-COMMUNIST ERA
The Albanian tradition contains several implicit references in Oedipal
terms. According to the blood feud law, the maternal figure remains inexistent.
She is treated merely as a servant; women and men that have not
reached sexual maturity are not subject to the canonical law, therefore cannot
be murdered in revenge. The fact that the son becomes subject to the
blood feud law immediately upon his sexual maturity, is an echo of the ver
sacrum and other rituals that apply sacrificial rules upon the son; the birth
chronology is respected also.
The mother–son relationship is depicted through a resonant remembrance
of the lactation period in some epical songs (the hero fed with maternal
milk will be proportionally stronger the longer the lactation is).
The massive fugue following the fall of communism has been elsewhere
treated in terms of psychopathology (HJ Maaz). Albanian literature,
painting and cinematography have tried to depict the Albanian male in
the period of its gender and social maturity, even inside a canonical frame
(Broken April and the movie based upon it).
TRADICIONALNA SLIKA I EKVIVALENCIJE
EDIPOVOG KOMPLEKSA U POST-KOMUNISTIČKOJ ERI
U ALBANIJI
U albanskoj je tradiciji nekoliko implicitnih referenci u edipovskim
terminima. Prema zakonu krvne osvete, majčinska je figura nepostojeća.
Nju se tretira tek kao sluškinju; žene i muškarci koji nisu dostigli spolnu
zrelost nisu subjekti kanonskog prava i stoga ne mogu biti ubijeni u znak
osvete. Činjenica da sin postaje subjekt zakona krvne osvete kad dostigne
svoju spolnu zrelost, odjek je ver sacrum i drugih rituala koji primjenjuju
žrtvena pravila na sina, a poštuje se i kronologija rađanja.
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