The Critique of the Law of the Father in Contemporary Italy
by Andrea Righi
pp. 26-43 Issue 16 (8,2) – July-December 2021 ISSN (online): 2539/2239 ISSN (print): 2389-8232 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14718/SoftPower.2021.8.2.2
Abstract
This essay investigates the crisis of the Symbolic Law of the Father in the context of Neoliberalism and debt economy by looking at two approaches by Italian intellectuals: Massimo Recalcati’s myth of Telemachus and Marcello Veneziani’s trope of Ulysses’ bed. As it lays out the shortcomings of both options, this essay sketches the contours of a progressive alternative solution based on the thought of sexual difference.