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A psychoanalytic perspective on tragedy, theater and death : Tadeusz Kantor and the ontology of the self
- Title
- A psychoanalytic perspective on tragedy, theater and death : Tadeusz Kantor and the ontology of the self / Konstantinos I. Arvanitakis.
- Author
- Arvanitakis, Konstantinos I.
- Publication
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.
- ©2019
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- Description
- 133 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- "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. 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 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, theatre shows its relation to death to be organic. The book concludes by examining in detail the principal works of Polish theatre director Tadeusz Kantor, whose search for theatre's identity was, essentially, a search for human identity"--
- Alternative Title
- Tadeusz Kantor and the ontology of the self
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Note
- "Routledge focus".
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-129) and index.
- Contents
- Dionysos and the tragic -- The origin of tragedy -- The origin of theater -- Why theater -- Kantor's theater of death -- Personal confessions.
- Call Number
- JFD 19-5527
- ISBN
- 9781138364240
- 113836424X
- 9780429431470 (canceled/invalid)
- 9780429776083 (canceled/invalid)
- 9780429776090 (canceled/invalid)
- 9780429776076 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2018052133
- OCLC
- 1061812491
- Author
- Arvanitakis, Konstantinos I., author.
- Title
- A psychoanalytic perspective on tragedy, theater and death : Tadeusz Kantor and the ontology of the self / Konstantinos I. Arvanitakis.
- Publisher
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-129) and index.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Arvanitakis, Konstantinos I., author. Psychoanalytic perspective on tragedy, theatre and death Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019 9780429431470 (DLC) 2018055302
- Research Call Number
- JFD 19-5527