“When comes the symptom…” A Contribution to the Renewal of Theatre Analysis Through an analysis of works by Tadeusz Kantor, Pina Bausch, Jan Lauwers, Pippo Delbono and Emma Dante, this thesis attempts to open up the traditional analytical tools that tend to be privileged by the discipline of theatre studies to concepts stemming from psychoanalysis or visual arts, which are more appropriate for rendering the intense emotional experience that these works induce. The notion of symptom, theorised by Freud and reappropriated by art history thanks to the work of Georges Didi-Huberman, can allow us to see the stage as more than a “system of signs”, “to be read”, under the influence of semiology and structuralism, but also to go beyond the image, towards something that is not immediately evident. Having shown the limitations of dramaturgical tools, it is possible to highlight the specific moments when a symptomatic gesture irrupts within these works by relying on a more phenomenological analysis. Dream patterns, which have the similar quality of being models of an order-disorder, are essential to our understanding of the organization of stage elements and processes. Whatever moves the spectator, is no longer strictly conditioned by representation, which is itself disrupted by the symptom, but is situated beyond it, under it, between the different scenic elements. The audience’s perception of reality becomes more reliant on imaginable rather than on some form of mimesis: images open up the gaze and alter the spectator’s stance, touching him physically and emotionally. The diffracted theatrical subject contained in the actor’s body helps the public witness Otherness onstage. The works studied here involve an experience of subjectivation and symbolisation, which activates the constitutive elements of the individual’s psyche, in crisis in contemporary society. Within the very physical relationship that is built between stage and audience, the spectator experiences his own position as a subject facing others, himself and the world.
“Ciò che fa sintomo…” Contributo al rinnovamento dell’analisi teatrale Attraverso l’analisi delle opere di Tadeusz Kantor, Pina Bausch, Jan Lauwers, Pippo Delbono ed Emma Dante, il presente studio propone un’apertura degli strumenti tradizionali degli studi teatrali ai concetti della psicanalisi e ai metodi utilizzati dai visual studies al fine di rendere conto dell’intensa esperienza emozionale suscitata dalle creazioni di questi artisti. La nozione di sintomo, teorizzata da Freud e ripresa nel campo della storia dell’arte da Georges Didi-Huberman, ci permette di superare la visione della scena come “sistema di segni” “da leggere” – sotto l’influenza della semiologia e dello strutturalismo – e di pensare al contrario ciò che nelle immagini proposte, non si lascia cogliere nell’immediato. Dopo aver mostrato i limiti degli strumenti drammaturgici, è possibile individuare i momenti in cui nelle opere studiate irrompe il gesto-sintomo, grazie all’adozione di un atteggiamento più fenomenologico. Il paradigma del sogno, in quanto modello analogico di una organizzazione-disorganizzazione, può renderci in grado di comprendere il concatenamento degli elementi scenici. Ciò che tocca lo spettatore non si situa più al livello della rappresentazione, destabilizzata dalla presenza del sintomo, ma al di sotto di quest’ultima e tra gli elementi scenici. Il rapporto al reale che si instaura per lo spettatore pertiene allora all’immaginabile piuttosto che a una forma di mimesi: le immagini aprono lo sguardo e modificano la posizione dello spettatore, colpito sia a livello corporeo che emozionale. Il soggetto teatrale diffratto, mosso dal corpo dell’attore, porta lo spettatore a fare l’esperienza dell’Altro sulla scena. Le opere in esame propongono in tal modo un’esperienza di soggetivazione e di simbolizzazione che riattiva i processi della costruzione psichica dell’individuo messa in crisi nella società contemporanea. Nel corpo a corpo che si stabilisce tra la scena e la sala, è alla propria posizione di soggetto rispetto agli altri, a se stesso e al mondo, che lo spettatore accede.
"Ciò che fa sintomo" contributo al rinnovamento dell'analisi teatrale.
THULARD, ADELINE
2015
Abstract
“When comes the symptom…” A Contribution to the Renewal of Theatre Analysis Through an analysis of works by Tadeusz Kantor, Pina Bausch, Jan Lauwers, Pippo Delbono and Emma Dante, this thesis attempts to open up the traditional analytical tools that tend to be privileged by the discipline of theatre studies to concepts stemming from psychoanalysis or visual arts, which are more appropriate for rendering the intense emotional experience that these works induce. The notion of symptom, theorised by Freud and reappropriated by art history thanks to the work of Georges Didi-Huberman, can allow us to see the stage as more than a “system of signs”, “to be read”, under the influence of semiology and structuralism, but also to go beyond the image, towards something that is not immediately evident. Having shown the limitations of dramaturgical tools, it is possible to highlight the specific moments when a symptomatic gesture irrupts within these works by relying on a more phenomenological analysis. Dream patterns, which have the similar quality of being models of an order-disorder, are essential to our understanding of the organization of stage elements and processes. Whatever moves the spectator, is no longer strictly conditioned by representation, which is itself disrupted by the symptom, but is situated beyond it, under it, between the different scenic elements. The audience’s perception of reality becomes more reliant on imaginable rather than on some form of mimesis: images open up the gaze and alter the spectator’s stance, touching him physically and emotionally. The diffracted theatrical subject contained in the actor’s body helps the public witness Otherness onstage. The works studied here involve an experience of subjectivation and symbolisation, which activates the constitutive elements of the individual’s psyche, in crisis in contemporary society. Within the very physical relationship that is built between stage and audience, the spectator experiences his own position as a subject facing others, himself and the world.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14242/86063
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