A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Tragedy, Theater and Death: Tadeusz Kantor and the Ontology of the Self...

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Konstantinos I. Arvanitakis

A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Tragedy, Theater and Death

Tadeusz Kantor and the Ontology of the Self

Konstantinos I. Arvanitakis

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Routledge
31 May 2023

Performance art; Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology)

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.

By: Konstantinos I. Arvanitakis
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm,
Weight: 200g
ISBN: 9781032570563
ISBN 10: 1032570563
Pages: 142
Publication Date: 31 May 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Konstantinos I. Arvanitakis is a Training and Supervising Analyst and former Director of the Canadian Institute of Psychoanalysis. He is an Associated Faculty member and Professor of Psychoanalysis and Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy, McGill University, and Emeritus Psychiatrist at the McGill University Health Center, Montreal, Canada.