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Author:   Maria Turri
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.340kg
ISBN:  

9781138699243

ISBN 10:   1138699241
Pages:   144
Publication Date:   24 November 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Chapter 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 Chapter 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 Transference re-enactment and transference analysis Repetition-compulsion – beyond the pleasure principle An interpretation of tragic katharsis as transference dynamic Tragic katharsis as transference dynamic Chapter 3 – The Paradoxe inside out Introduction The Paradoxe of the actor The Paradoxe analysed About David Garrick Dual consciousness and the psychology of acting Diderot’s ideas on acting preceding the Paradoxe Chapter 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 A New Theory of Acting Chapter 5 – 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 Chapter 6 – Acting and spectating in alpha-function The art of the actor as alpha-function The relationship between sensibility and understanding in the art of the actor The 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

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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.

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