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Escaping the Phantom’s Ghostly Grasp: On Psychoanalysis as a Performance Art
in the Spirit World Paper presentation by Patrick B. Kavanaugh, Ph.D.
11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. (Coffee & Conversation 11:00 - 11:30 a.m) |
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MSPP Monthly Meeting Schedule
Sunday, April 27, 2008 ~ 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. (Coffee & Conversation 11:00 - 11:30 a.m) Providence Hospital, Fisher Auditorium, 16001 West Nine Mile Rd., Southfield Michigan
Escaping the Phantom’s Ghostly Grasp: On
Psychoanalysis as a Performance Art in the Spirit World Paper presentation by Patrick B. Kavanaugh, Ph.D.
ABSTRACT: Described as a madman-philosopher, a poet-dramatist, and a theorist-playwright, Antonin Artaud (1895-1948) wrote a collection of essays on the theatre during his nine years in various mental asylums in France in the 1930’s. Published in 1938, Le Theatre et son double (The Theatre and Its Double) presented a revolutionary theory in which his metaphysical theatre replaces the psychological theatre of the West. In so doing, Artaud broke with the Aristotelean tradition of theatre and, influenced by an Oriental philosophy, introduced his metaphysical theatre as embodied in his Theatre of Cruelty. His theatre enters a more dangerous kind of reality that looks beneath the mask of the civilized and demands that the audience viscerally see and speak with the more barbaric, primitive, and real aspects of self and other.
ABOUT THE PRESENTER: Dr. Kavanaugh is in the private practice of psychoanalysis in Farmington Hills, Michigan.
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