MOTAL, Jan. Anxious Affinities: How Theatrical Performance Can Generate a Platform for Interpersonal Dialogue. Slovenské divadlo / The Slovak Theatre. 2017, vol. 65, No 3, p. 316-326. ISSN 0037-699X. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1515/sd-2017-0018.
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Original name Anxious Affinities: How Theatrical Performance Can Generate a Platform for Interpersonal Dialogue
Authors MOTAL, Jan (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution).
Edition Slovenské divadlo / The Slovak Theatre, 2017, 0037-699X.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Article in a journal
Field of Study 60403 Performing arts studies
Country of publisher Slovakia
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
Organization unit Theatre Faculty
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/sd-2017-0018
Keywords in English embodied mind; theatre performance; dialogue; existence; death anxiety; representation
Tags RIV
Tags International impact, Reviewed
Changed by Changed by: doc. MgA. Jan Motal, Ph.D., učo 5807. Changed: 5/3/2018 10:57.
Abstract
The article combines both philosophical and psychological approaches to argue that art and theatre performance especially can be grasped as a revelation of the universal and basic human concern, which is existential anxiety. The author presents an opinion, that via performative acts on stage, spectators and performers/actors are interconnected in hermeneutic situation (Hans-Georg Gadamer), in which they play their existential experience. Therefore, the universal death anxiety (Irvin D. Yalom) can be understood as a possible platform for interpersonal and intercultural dialogue (Martin Buber). The article concludes, that archetypes (Carl Gustav Jung) are such a place for mutual understanding, representing both mental and physical answers to the basic existential experience of humankind.
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