Il sogno di Ifigenia tra i Tauri

Visitare l'invisibile

Abstract

Iphigenia's dream (vv. 42-55) contains in nuce the essential representation of the entire tragedy. In the contracted time of the dream, Agamemnon's daughter experiences the past, the present and the future: believed dead and invisible to Ellas, she drags out a motionless existence in the shadow of the Tauric Artemis and, uniting her father and brother in the desire for death, projects herself into a future free of the nagging memory of sacrifice. Invisible are the sounds of the signifiers with which Iphigenia attempts in vain to establish contact with her homeland, just as invisible are the drives that agitate, trouble and disturb her. In the dream dimension, the maiden is able to approach the deepest reality, the magma of the primordial psychic. However, the meaning of the dream and the ultimate sense of human action are precluded to her, as invisible as the elusive face of Ἀνάγκη (τὸ [...] χρεὼν, v. 1486) or of Hades, to whom Mark Rothko's disquieting and splendid painting refers.