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    STUDIA DRAMATICA - Issue no. 1 / 2021  
         
  Article:   WHAT IS VISIBLE WHEN ACTING? ACTING-OUT, PASSAGE À L’ACTE AND THE DIALECTICS OF THE GAZE IN PHENOMENOLOGY AND PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY.

Authors:  CRISTIAN BODEA.
 
       
         
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DOI: 10.24193/subbdrama.2021.1.03

Published Online: 2021-03-30
Published Print: 2021-04-30
pp. 49-66

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ABSTRACT: The paper approaches acting from a phenomenological and psychoanalytic point of view. It sheds light on the intrinsic (i.e., invisible) resorts involved when someone is playing a role – or, better yet, assumes a role. In order to make these mechanisms visible, the paper relies on the premise that acting always involves an act. Using the Lacanian theory of acts, I demonstrate that there is a real process taking place when assuming a role, namely when the subject needs to objectify himself. This process can be traced back as far as the “time” of a pre-existent gaze. The aim of the paper is to substantiate the idea that it is necessary for the gaze to enter a dialectics in order for the subject to find its objective place. For illustration, two works of art are used: the performance The Artist is Present by Marina Abramović and the movie A Woman Under the Influence by John Cassavetes.

Key words: act, desire, gaze, objectify, the Other, presence without assignable present, the Real, (in)visible.
 
         
     
         
         
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