A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Tragedy, Theater and Death: Tadeusz Kantor and the Ontology of the Self

ISBN-13: 9781138364240 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 134 str.

Konstantinos I. Arvanitakis

Opis

A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Tragedy, Theatre and Death shines a spotlight on what theatre, and especially tragedy, tells us about our ontological selves, by exploring both Euripides’ Bacchae and the work of Tadeusz Kantor.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.