ABSTRACT
Euripides advocates the acceptance of an imperfect society. Politics uses not only words and reason but also mythical and religious acts, which are integrated into theatrical poetic metaphors. These acts give the weight of historical truth to the inscription of written laws. Politics is the struggle to innovate institutions so that they are defined by permeable boundaries, which constitute a zone of exchange, an area of a third transitional reality, maintained with negations and transient states of splitting between internal and external reality. An institution consists of a capacity, a stable web of links of relationships, where new experiences can be put and reality can be found-constructed. Democracy is a tragic regime. The subject of one’s polis undertakes with courage the necessity to suffer, give meanings, internalise, and assume intrapsychic responsibility of split off experiences and unknown forces and limits, and make them personal. He has the capacity to be the thinker that can think – be a tragic subject of – his thoughts.
