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1 online resource (145 pages) |
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Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies |
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Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; A note on the text; Acknowledgements; 1 Theorizing theatre spectatorship; Starting with Brecht; The epic theatre; Spectatorship, emotions and the unconscious; Spectatorship and psychoanalysis; The significance of the unconscious to psychic life; Psychoanalysis in context; A psychoanalytic perspective of theatre spectatorship; 2 Transference and katharsis, Freud to Aristotle; Introduction; Aristotle's theory of mimēsis and tragic katharsis; Pity and fear; Freud's theory of psychoanalysis from the cathartic method to the transference |
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Transference re-enactment and transference analysisRepetition-compulsion -- beyond the pleasure principle; An interpretation of tragic katharsis as transference dynamic; Tragic katharsis as transference dynamic; 3 The Paradoxe inside out; Introduction; The Paradoxe of the actor; The Paradoxe analyzed; About David Garrick; Dual consciousness and the psychology of acting; Diderot's ideas on acting preceding the Paradoxe; 4 The emotionalist theory of acting; Introduction; Genetic and trans-European links; The emotionalist texts on acting; Le Comédien; The Actor; Garrick ou les acteurs anglois |
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A new theory of acting5 Unconscious emotional processing in alpha-function; Freud's theory of ego functioning; From the psychology of impulse to the psychology of the ego; The relationship between the ego, the id and reality; Identification through introjection and projection; Kleinian theory of object-relations; Projection and introjection; Ego-splitting and integration; The birth of the self; Bion's theory of alpha-function; Projective identification; Alpha-function; The double nature of alpha-function; 6 Acting and spectating in alpha-function; The art of the actor as alpha-function |
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The relationship between sensibility and understanding in the art of the actorThe spectator and the transpersonal dimension of acting; The severing of transpersonal alpha-function; Diderot's unfeeling actor and the manic position; The envious spectator; Brecht's ' Verfremdungseffekt ' and autonomous alpha-function; Semiotics and the double game of the actor; Unconscious emotional processes of theatre spectatorship; Theatre for pleasure or theatre for instruction; Theatre spectatorship, emotions and pleasure; Theatre, empathy and sympathy; Semiotics and theatre's feedback loop; Index |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781315517315 |
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1315517310 |
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