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...

Lyrical Ballads have always been wedded to controversy. Though the judgments of the periodicals and the ensuing authorial reaction have long since been superseded by a plethora of scholarly interpretations, the debate still focuses on their elusive, paradoxical character. Are the poems traditional or experimental, a random collocation or an organised sequence? Patrick Campbell surveys the critical fluctuations of nearly two centuries while privileging recent approaches which have sought fresh perspectives on the volume - contextual, formalist and genre based, psycho-analytic, materialist,...