World of Samuel Beckett

Häftad, Engelska, 1991

Del 12 i serien Psychiatry and the Humanities

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"The World of Samuel Beckett" brings together a distinguished group of authorities, among them Beckett's longtime associates and colleagues Herbert Blau and Martin Esslin. In a chapter on Beckett's "Enough", Blau concedes that parts of the playwright's work can be lyrical and beguiling, but "it's still an appalling vision". Esslin (who coined the term "theater of the absurd") challenges the notion that Beckett is difficult or depressing, arguing instead that he is basically a comic writer, gallows humor thought it be. Angela Moorjani sees Beckett's writing as the product of a cryptic text inscribed within. Bennett Simon, a psychiatrist who has written extensively on Beckett, examines the self in current art and psychoanalysis. Joseph H. Smith emphasizes that Beckett, like Freud and Lacan, challenges any notions of "cure" as the easy achievement of happiness.

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Utgivningsdatum:1991-01-26
Mått:149 x 229 x 16 mm
Vikt:340 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Psychiatry and the Humanities
Antal sidor:264
Förlag:Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN:9780801841354

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Joseph H. Smith, M.D., is supervising and training analyst at the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute and president of the Washington Psychoanalytic Society. He is editor of Psychoanalysis and Religion.

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The psychoanalytic vision that informs the majority of the articles (those of the academic scholars as well as those of the practitioners of psychiatry) sheds important new light on Beckett's work. Theatre Survey

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AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1. Quaquaquaqua: The Babel of BeckettChapter 2. Enough or Too Little? Vpoicings of Desire and Discontent in Beckett's "Enough"Chapter 3. Seven Types of Postmodernity: Several Types of Samuel BeckettChapter 4. A Cryptanalysis of Beckett's MolloyChapter 5. The Whole StoryChapter 6. "Tender Mercies": Subjectivity and Subjection in Samual Beckett's Not IChapter 7. Post Apocalypse with Out Figures: The Trauma of Theater in Samuel BreckettChapter 8. Recovering the Néant: Language and the Unconscious in BeckettChapter 9. The Fragmented Self, the Reproduction of the Self, and Reproduction in Beckett and in the Theater of the AbsurdChapter 10. Self-objectification and Preservation Beckett's Krapp's Last TapeChapter 11. Notes on Krapp, Endgame, and "Applied" Psychoanalysis Chapter 12. Telling It How It Is: Beckett and the Mass Media The Less SaidIndex