0
Your cart

Your cart is empty

Browse All Departments
  • All Departments
Price
  • R1,000 - R2,500 (1)
  • -
Status
Brand

Showing 1 - 1 of 1 matches in All Departments

A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Tragedy, Theater and Death - Tadeusz Kantor and the Ontology of the Self (Hardcover):... A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Tragedy, Theater and Death - Tadeusz Kantor and the Ontology of the Self (Hardcover)
Konstantinos I. Arvanitakis
R1,575 Discovery Miles 15 750 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Tragedy, Theater and Death shines a spotlight on what theater, 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 traumatic 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, theater shows its relation to death to be organic. The book concludes by examining in detail the principal works of Polish theater director Tadeusz Kantor, whose search for theater's identity was, essentially, a search for human identity. Erudite and far-reaching, A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Tragedy, Theater and Death will interest psychoanalysts as well as students, scholars and researchers across the dramatic arts wishing to draw on psychoanalytic ideas.

Free Delivery
Pinterest Twitter Facebook Google+
You may like...
Amheida III - Ostraka from Trimithis…
Roger S. Bagnall, Rodney Ast Hardcover R2,906 Discovery Miles 29 060
Magnetic Quantum Dots for Bioimaging
Amin Reza Rajabzadeh, Seshasai Srinivasan, … Hardcover R4,923 Discovery Miles 49 230
Caring for Millions - Secrets to…
Kamran Nasser Hardcover R795 Discovery Miles 7 950
Muhammad - How He Can Make You…
Hesham Al-Awadi Paperback R277 Discovery Miles 2 770
In Sickness and in Health
Kenneth Maccallum Hardcover R731 Discovery Miles 7 310
Historical Sketch of the Electric…
Alexander Jones Paperback R488 Discovery Miles 4 880
Concrete Jungles - Urban Pollution and…
Jaffe Hardcover R3,373 Discovery Miles 33 730
How To Get A SARS Refund
Daniel Baines Paperback  (3)
R196 Discovery Miles 1 960
Braving a New World - Cambodian (Khmer…
Marycarol Hopkins Hardcover R2,763 Discovery Miles 27 630
Killing Karoline - A Memoir
Sara-Jayne King Paperback  (1)
R325 R305 Discovery Miles 3 050

 

Partners