Psychoanalysis and Performance

Patrick Campbell is Academic Chair of Performing Arts at Middlesex University. Adrian Kear is Senior Lecturer in Drama and Theatre Studies at the University of Surrey Roehampton.

• Preface: The returns of psychoanalysis, and performance Introduction SECTION A Thinking through theatre 1 Rehearsing the impossible: the insane root 2 As if: blocking the Cartesian stage 3 Scanning sublimation: the digital Pôles of performance and psychoanalysis 4 Now and then: psychotherapy and the rehearsal process SECTION B Parallel performances 5 Violence, ventriloquism and the vocalic body 6 Hello Dolly Well Hello Dolly: the double and its theatre 7 Writing home: post-modern melancholia and the uncanny space of living-room theatre 8 The writer’s block: performance, play and the responsibilities of analysis 9 The placebo of performance: psychoanalysis in its place SECTION C History, memory, trauma 10 Freud, Futurism, and Polly Dick 11 (Laughter) 12 Speak whiteness: staging ‘race’, performing responsibility 13 The Upsilon Project: a post-tragic testimonial 14 Staging social memory: Yuyachkani