A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Tragedy, Theater and Death Tadeusz Kantor and the Ontology of the Self
Auteur : Arvanitakis Konstantinos I.
A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Tragedy, Theater and Death shines a spotlight on what theater, and especially tragedy, tells us about our ontological selves, by exploring both Euripides? Bacchae and the work of Tadeusz Kantor.
Focusing on the theatrical tradition of the West, the book examines Euripides? Bacchae, a tragedy about the nature of tragedy, suggesting that the tragic can be defined as an ontological duality rooted in the early experience of the infant?s separation from mother, with whom s/he had, until then, formed a fused Unit. The traumatic rupture of this primal Unit is inscribed in the unconscious as death.
The book then considers the defining binary structure of the theatrical setting ? (spectator/spectated or fantasy/reality) ? before arguing that in staging our ontological dividedness, theater shows its relation to death to be organic. The book concludes by examining in detail the principal works of Polish theater director Tadeusz Kantor, whose search for theater?s identity was, essentially, a search for human identity.
Erudite and far-reaching, A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Tragedy, Theater and Death will interest psychoanalysts as well as students, scholars and researchers across the dramatic arts wishing to draw on psychoanalytic ideas.
Introduction; PART 1; Chapter 1: Dionysos and the tragic; Chapter 2: The origin of tragedy; Chapter 3: The origin of theater; Chapter 4: Why theater; PART 2; Chapter 5: Kantor’s Theater of Death; Chapter 6: Personal confessions; Epilogue
Konstantinos I. Arvanitakis is a Training and Supervising Analyst and former Director of the Canadian Institute of Psychoanalysis. He is an Associated Faculty member and Professor of Psychoanalysis and Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy, McGill University, and Emeritus Psychiatrist at the McGill University Health Center, Montreal, Canada.
Date de parution : 05-2023
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Mots-clés :
Danse Macabre; Eternal Laws; Freud; Silent Night; psychoanalysis; Stage Points; tragedy; Unconscious Primal Phantasy; Euripides; Primal Phantasy; Bacchae; Face To Face; Urszene; Dionysian Frenzy; Tadeusz Kantor; Homeric Psyche; Theater of Death; Director’s Notebook; Polish theater; Ontological Schism; Greek tragedy; Traumatic Primal Scene; dramatic arts; Primal Scene; psychoanalytic ideas; Kantor’s Theater; Dead Object; Dead Class; Somatic Mind; Fifteenth Century BCE; Violent Fragmentation; Artists Die; Double Deception; Andere Schauplatz; Figure Ground Gestalt; Utter Silence; Tragic Flaw