Psychoanalysis and Performance

ISBN-13: 9780415212045 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 256 str.

P. Campbell; Ba Patrick Campbell; Adrian Kear

Opis

This volume maps out the relationship between psychoanalysis and performance in terms of analyzing the nature of performance itself and in terms of making sense of specific performance-related activities. A collection of distinguished thinkers in the field make this connection and offer perspectives on a wide variety of topics, including: the history of hypnotism; ventriloquism; cloning; the cultural politics of race and nation; transgressive performance; and futurism. From rehearsal process to consciousness theory, digital performance to collective social trauma, the arguments advanced here are based on the dual principle that psychoanalysis can help our understanding of performance, and that performance can illuminate the workings of the human psyche.

O autorze

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.