Insaf Khémiri
University of Sousse, Tunisia
Abstract
With reference to
Carole Maso’s Ghost Dance and focusing on one specific character, the
Italian American grandfather, Angelo, the present paper tried to study the
archetypal images of Caesars which fed the self-centred patriarchal Western
‘ego’ and, thus, poisoned the character’s soul, hindered his freedom, and
affected his relationships. While the first part dealt with the four
manifestations of ‘Caesar’: the Christian God, the patriarchal Father, the
white Anglo-centric man, and the Italian ‘master,’ the second part attempted to
highlight the importance of masks in freeing the ‘ego’ from the dominance of
Caesars. The soul selects ‘its’ own society by discovering other images, gods,
spirits, and ghosts and the character’s freedom depended on the ‘remythologization’
of these multiple facets of the psyche.
Keywords: Archetypes, the Dionysian, Otherness, Shamanism.
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