I dolori del giovane Osvald

Abstract

At first the author of the essay discusses the Roberto Alonge’s bold and provocative theory on Spettri in the light of the freudian notion of "compromise formation" typical, according to Francesco Orlando, of the literary. After throwing new light on the Ibsen’s statements in regard to the interpretation that Zacconi gave about Osvald Alving, the essay offers some suggestions for a reading, in biblical and "degenerative" key, of the behavior and disease of the same Osvald. Finally the essay proposes, in the wake of Orlando, a reading of what is perturbing in Spettri (and in many modern dramas of Ibsen) in the double freudian meaning: "return of the repressed" and "return of the surmounted".