As dores de Filoctetes

Sophocles’ Philoctetes is the pattern to appraise pain and its aesthetic representation. The art’s function of moral education takes the german eighteen century to discuss the expression of pain: should it be repressed or exteriorized? The personal behaviour differs according to the resistance, circumstances, social rules, integration in cultural references. Pain is not only the signals broadcasted over nerves leading from injury to the brain. It implicates the whole being, in its psychological, affective, moral, volitive tones. It breaks the rhythm of existence, desfigures identity, disarticulates speech. Untransferable, it begets limitations. Singular probation, it exposes the universal possibility of suffering. It changes the comprehension of reality. It raises up the essencial ontological question: the sense of the living being, consigned to suffering and annihilation.