Konstantinos I. Arvanitakis

A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Tragedy, Theater and Death (eBook, PDF)

Tadeusz Kantor and the Ontology of the Self

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 142
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429776090
• Artikelnr.: 55288010

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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