The horse and the rocking chair: a play between Benjamin and Beckett

During infancy and in oldness, humans experience in the motion of the pendulum a set of temporal and spatial dimensions. The movement that people do while sat on a horse and on a rocking chair can help them to get a place in the world and make the exercise of digression. Benjamin's thought appears in this essay as a starting point for the observations of Freud and Agamben, which indicate that, on repeating the gestures of others and in the extension of past time, Beckett's characters of Film (1981) and Rockaby (1963) try to (re) build life and delay the endgame.