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- Sex, death, seduction, trauma and an intimate yet distanced relationship to an amorous other: circus and psychoanalysis have much in common. This book looks to the story circus tells when it is on the couch; a love story of impossible desires, improbable fantasies deeply indebted to masochism and utopian longing. However, trapped as it is in its conservative and narcissistic aesthetics of infatuation – stunning, erotic and impressive – its queer core of anti-normative and anarchic desire has been co-opted as the poster-child for neoliberal success. This work looks to its fundamental and disavowed romance with failure to show how progressive its thinking could be.
- The book offers a psychoanalytic account of the practice of contemporary circus. It evolves its narrative through three voices: dramatic address (love poems from a disaffected, retired artist to the public), memoir in verse (a genealogy of becoming a circus artist) and psychoanalytic theory written through the lens of personal experience as a circus artist, pedagogue, director and psychoanalytic scholar.It offers the benefit of a subject/artist embedded in the theory, showing how the artist comes to theory from their own contexts – social, gendered, sexualized and racialized – and how theory helps the artist contextualize themselves in the field. The theoretical perspectives draw from Freud via Lacan but touches upon Winnicot, Klein and Kristeva.
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- Circus
- Lacan
- Psychoanalysis
- Literature
- Performativa och mediala praktiker, med inriktning mot film och media/koreografi/opera/scen
- Performative and mediated practices, with specializations in choreography/film and media/opera /performing arts
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- kfu (subject category)
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