Acting, Spectating, and the Unconscious: A psychoanalytic perspective on unconscious processes of identification in the theatre (Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies) - Softcover

Turri, Maria

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0367736659 ISBN 13: 9780367736651

Publisher: Routledge, 2020

Synopsis

From Aristotle’s theory of tragic katharsis onwards, theorists of the theatre have long engaged with the question of what spectatorship entails. This question has, directly or indirectly, often been extended to the investigation of acting.

Acting, Spectating, and the Unconscious approaches the unconscious aspects of spectatorship and acting afresh. Interweaving psychoanalytic descriptions of processes such as transference, unconscious phantasy, and alpha-function with an in-depth survey of theories of spectating and acting from thinkers such as Brecht, Diderot, Rousseau and Plato, Maria Grazia Turri offers a significant insight into the emotions inherent in both the art of the actor, and the spectator’s experience.

A compelling investigation of the unconscious communication between spectators and actors, this volume is a must-read for students and scholars fascinated by theatre spectatorship.

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About the Author

Maria Grazia Turri is an independent theatre scholar, and a psychiatrist at the University of Oxford. She completed her PhD in Drama at the University of Exeter in 2015. In her research, she applies psychoanalysis to the analysis of theatre processes.??

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2020
• ISBN 10: 0367736659
• ISBN 13: 9780367736651
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 144