Megan Sherritt: Dancing an Embodied Sinthome

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This book provides the first in-depth analysis of Lacanian psychoanalytic theory and the art of dance and explores what each practice can offer the other. It takes as its starting point Jacques Lacan¿s assertion that James Joyce¿s literary works helped him create what Lacan terms a sinthome, thereby preventing psychosis. That is, Joyce¿s use of written language helped him maintain a ¿normal¿ existence despite showing tendencies towards psychosis. Here it is proposed that writing was only the method through which Joyce worked but that the key element in his sinthome was play, specifically the play of the Lacanian real.
The book moves on to consider how dance operates similarly to Joyce¿s writing and details the components of Joyce¿s sinthome, not as a product that keeps him sane, but as an interminable process for coping with the (Lacanian) real. The author contends that Joyce goes beyond words and meaning, using language¿s metre, tone, rhythm, and cadence to play with the real, mirroring his experience of it and confining it to his works, creating order in the chaos of his mind. The art of dance is shown to be a process that likewise allows one to play with the real. However, it is emphasized that dance goes further: it also teaches someone how to play if one doesn't already know how. This book offers a compelling analysis that sheds new light on the fields of psychoanalysis and dance and looks to what this can tell us about¿and the possibilities for¿both practices, concluding that psychoanalysis and dance both offer processes that open possibilities that might otherwise seem impossible. This original analysis will be of particular interest to those working in the fields of psychoanalysis, aesthetics, psychoanalytic theory, critical theory, art therapy, and dance studies.

Über den Autor

Megan Sherritt completed her PhD at the Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism at Western University, Canada, and is in training to become a psychoanalytic psychotherapist.

Zusammenfassung

The book moves on to consider how dance operates similarly to Joyce's writing and details the components of Joyce's sinthome, not as a product that keeps him sane, but as an interminable process for coping with the (Lacanian) real. The author contends that while writing may have been the method through which Joyce worked, Joyce goes beyond words and meaning, using language's metre, tone, rhythm, and cadence to play with the real, mirroring his experience of it and confining it to his works, creating order in the chaos of his mind. The art of dance is shown to be a process that likewise allows one to play with the real. However, it is emphasized that dance goes further: as it also teaches someone how to play if one doesn't already know how. This book offers a compelling analysis that sheds new light on the fields of psychoanalysis and dance and looks to what this can tell us about-and the possibilities for-both practices, concluding that psychoanalysis and dance both offer processes that open possibilities that might otherwise seem impossible. This original analysis will be of particular interest to those working in the fields of psychoanalysis, aesthetics, psychoanalytic theory, critical theory, art therapy, and dance studies.

Megan Sherritt is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist, and completed her PhD at the Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism at Western University, Canada.

Erscheinungsjahr:	2024
Fachbereich:	Psychoanalyse
Genre:	Geisteswissenschaften , Kunst , Musik , Psychologie
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Buch
Inhalt:	x 238 S.
ISBN-13:	9783031423260
ISBN-10:	3031423267
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Sherritt, Megan
Auflage:	1st edition 2023
Hersteller:	Springer Nature Switzerland Springer International Publishing AG
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, D-69121 Heidelberg, juergen.hartmann@springer.com
Maße:	216 x 153 x 19 mm
Von/Mit:	Megan Sherritt
Erscheinungsdatum:	05.01.2024
Gewicht:	0,438 kg