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This book provides an epistemology of the body as it relates to subjectivity through an analysis of selected works of Antonin Artaud and Samuel Beckett. Presented in three parts, the book explores a fundamental premise: that there is a traumatic and alienating dimension to embodiment that resists expression within representational systems and is core to the being of any subject.
In Part One, The Epistemology of the Body, Meehan O'Callaghan approaches a theory of the body as traumatic by framing it as a question, a gap in knowledge through the lens of psychoanalysis and theatre studies. Part Two, The Body of Drama, is devoted to a study of the body in the works of Beckett and Artaud from the perspective of psychoanalysis. Part Three, The Body Between Being and Non-Being, provides a deeper exploration of how the interrogation of the body opens onto a question of being and uses the insights gained from the dialectical encounter of psychoanalysis with the specific works of Beckett and Artaud to apply them to contemporary and scholarly issues of the body.
Psychoanalysing Mind-Body Narratives through Beckett and Artaud will be essential reading for psychoanalysts in practice and in training, and for academics and scholars of Lacanian studies, psychoanalytic studies, the body, disability studies, and literary and theatre studies.
Contents
Introduction: On Not Knowing the Body
Part One - The Epistemology of the Body
Chapter 1. The Question of the Body
Chapter 2. The Problem with Mind-Body Narratives
Chapter 3. The Trauma of the Body: A Fissure in Being
Part Two - The Body of Drama
Chapter 4. The Aesthetic of Debility in Beckett's Theatre
Chapter 5. "Something is Taking its Course": Endgame's Chronic Bodies
Chapter 6. Artaud's Impossible Body: Cruelty, Pain and Affect
Chapter 7. Theatre of Excess: Modes of Jouissance in Artaud's The Cenci
Part Three - The Body Between Being and Non-Being
Chapter 8. Not I: Demlimiting the Void of Being
Chapter 9. After Artaud: The Body as the Question of Being
Conclusion: The Enigma of the Body and the Truth of Being
