256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
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The field of literary studies has long recognised the centrality of psychoanalysis as a method for looking at texts in a new way. But rarely has the relationship between psychoanalysis and performance been mapped out, either in terms of analysing the nature of performance itself, or in terms of making sense of specific performance-related activities. In this volume some of the most distinguished... Read more
Preface: The returns of psychoanalysis, and performance Introduction SECTION A Thinking through theatre 1 Rehearsing the impossible: the insane root 2 As if: blocking the Cartesian stage 3 Scanning sublimation: the digital Pôles of performance and psychoanalysis 4 Now and then: psychotherapy and the rehearsal process SECTION B Parallel performances 5 Violence, ventriloquism and the vocalic body 6 Hello Dolly Well Hello Dolly: the double and its theatre 7 Writing home: post-modern melancholia and the uncanny space of living-room theatre 8 The writer’s block: performance, play and the responsibilities of analysis 9 The placebo of performance: psychoanalysis in its place SECTION C History, memory, trauma 10 Freud, Futurism, and Polly Dick 11 (Laughter) 12 Speak whiteness: staging ‘race’, performing responsibility 13 The Upsilon Project: a post-tragic testimonial 14 Staging social memory: Yuyachkani
Biography
Patrick Campbell is Academic Chair of Performing Arts at Middlesex University. Adrian Kear is Senior Lecturer in Drama and Theatre Studies at the University of Surrey Roehampton.
