Poética del Parricidio

Abstract

The following work presents the reflections of the artistic creation ¨The princess and the unicorn¨ (a historical fiction monologue based on the relationship between Manuela Escobar and her father Pablo Escobar) whose principal research purpose has been to uncover the misogynistic and patriarchal problems stipulated from the relation father-daughter. The life of her father (a murdered) ends up with an inevitable destiny in the life of his daughter. Furthermore, this artistic creation made it possible to understand the relationship with my father (a hitman of Bogotá 1971-2010) the consequences of his violent life in my role as a daughter and in my self-conception as a woman and, provided the opportunity to be able to act against the paternal power that he had over my life. To review “the paternal violence” is necessary to understand the legacy that has been extended to the lives of his daughters, who must be conceived from the idolatrous society of violence as descendants of “the patriarch” that has been forged as a figure of power, authoritarianism, and absolute truth. To fight against this “natural social state”, the daughter must —as an emancipating event— create a ritual act that manage to separate her desire for knowledge from the patriarchal hermetic desire that ties her life to the father’s life route. This work is a guide (of many possible) to walk towards “the symbolic death” of her father, which is a synonym with freedom and emancipation of the daughter.