Mito della crisi e crisi del mito in Aracoeli di Elsa Morante/The Myth of Crisis and the Crisis of Myth in Morante's Aracoeli

The study proves the presence of an anthropological hypotext in Morante's novel, methodologically approached through a series of psychopathological diagnoses that followed De Martino's theory on the crisis of culture and its subsequent reassumption by ritual operations, where Literature shows to be in the case of the story and mythological symbolism.