Psychoanalysis and Performance

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Synopsis
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 thinkers in the field make this exciting new connection and offer original perspectives on a wide variety of topics, including: · hypnotism and hysteria · ventriloquism and the body · dance and sublimation · the unconscious and the rehearsal process · melancholia and the uncanny · cloning and theatrical mimesis · censorship and activist performance · theatre and social memory. The arguments advanced here are based on the dual principle that psychoanalysis can provide a productive framework for understanding the work of performance, and that performance itself can help to investigate the problematic of identity.
Copyright:
2001

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Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:
9781134616244
Related ISBNs:
9780203460870, 9780415212045, 9780415212045, 9780415212052, 9780415212052
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Patrick Campbell, Adrian Kear
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Entertainment, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Psychology, Drama, Plays and Theater
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Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:
Patrick Campbell
Edited by:
Adrian Kear

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