Baraitser, Lisa and Bayly, S. (2001) Now and then: psychotherapy and the rehearsal process. In: Campbell, P. and Kear, A. (eds.) Psychoanalysis and Performance. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9780415212052.
Abstract
Book synopsis: The field of literary studies has long recognised the centrality of psychoanalysis as a method for looking at texts in a new way. But rarely has the relationship between psychoanalysis and performance been mapped out, either in terms of analysing the nature of performance itself, or in terms of making sense of specific performance-related activities. In this volume some of the most distinguished thinkers in the field make this exciting new connection and offer original perspectives on a wide variety of topics, including: · hypnotism and hysteria · ventriloquism and the body · dance and sublimation · the unconscious and the rehearsal process · melancholia and the uncanny · cloning and theatrical mimesis · censorship and activist performance · theatre and social memory. The arguments advanced here are based on the dual principle that psychoanalysis can provide a productive framework for understanding the work of performance, and that performance itself can help to investigate the problematic of identity.
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| Item Type: | Book Section |
|---|---|
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences |
| Research Centres and Institutes: | Psychosocial Research, Centre for |
| Depositing User: | Sarah Hall |
| Date Deposited: | 20 Jun 2017 10:52 |
| Last Modified: | 28 Mar 2025 16:42 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/19006 |
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