Opera On The Couch

Author : Steven H. Goldberg,Lee Rather
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781000591552

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Opera on the Couch by Steven H. Goldberg,Lee Rather Pdf

In this widely ranging collection of essays, a group of contemporary psychoanalyst/authors turn their finely-honed listening skills and clinical experience to plumb the depths and illuminate themes of character, drama, myth, culture, and psychobiography in some of the world’s most beloved operas. The richly diverse chapters are unified by a psychoanalytic approach to the nuances of unconscious mental life and emotional experience as they unfold synergistically in opera’s music, words, and drama. Opera creates a unique bridge between thought and feeling, mind and body, and conscious and unconscious that offers fertile ground for psychological exploration of profound human truths. Each piece is written in a colorful and non-technical manner that will appeal to mental health professionals, musicians, academics, and general readers wishing to better understand and appreciate opera as an art form.

Author : Polly Pen,Laurence Klavan
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0822215489

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Bed and Sofa by Polly Pen,Laurence Klavan Pdf

THE STORY: In Moscow, in 1926, a housing crisis rages. In a cramped apartment, Ludmilla, a put-upon housewife, lives in dreamy complacency with her cheerful despot of a husband, Kolya. When one day, Kolya's handsome comrade, Volodya, arrives from the coun

Author : Elizabeth Maconchy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Music
ISBN : STANFORD:36105042058706

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The Sofa by Elizabeth Maconchy Pdf

Author : Slavoj Zizek,Mladen Dolar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781135207786

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Opera's Second Death by Slavoj Zizek,Mladen Dolar Pdf

Opera's Second Death is a passionate exploration of opera - the genre, its masterpieces, and the nature of death. Using a dazzling array of tools, Slavoj Zizek and coauthor Mladen Dolar explore the strange compulsions that overpower characters in Mozart and Wagner, as well as our own desires to die and to go to the opera.

Author : Helen M. Greenwald
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1217 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199714841

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The Oxford Handbook of Opera by Helen M. Greenwald Pdf

What IS opera? Contributors to The Oxford Handbook of Opera respond to this deceptively simple question with a rich and compelling exploration of opera's adaption to changing artistic and political currents. Fifty of the world's most respected scholars cast opera as a fluid entity that continuously reinvents itself in a reflection of its patrons, audience, and creators. The synergy of power, performance, and identity recurs thematically throughout the volume's major topics: Words, Music, and Meaning; Performance and Production; Opera and Society; and Transmission and Reception. Individual essays engage with repertoire from Monteverdi, Mozart, and Meyerbeer to Strauss, Henze, and Adams in studies of composition, national identity, transmission, reception, sources, media, iconography, humanism, the art of collecting, theory, analysis, commerce, singers, directors, criticism, editions, politics, staging, race, and gender. The title of the penultimate section, Opera on the Edge, suggests the uncertainty of opera's future: is opera headed toward catastrophe or have social and musical developments of the last hundred years stimulated something new and exciting, and, well, operatic? In an epilogue to the volume, a contemporary opera composer speaks candidly about opera composition today. The Oxford Handbook of Opera is an essential companion to scholars, educators, advanced students, performers, and knowledgeable listeners: those who simply love opera.

Author : Karen Rodríguez
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9789401207836

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Small City on a Big Couch by Karen Rodríguez Pdf

This book psychoanalyzes a small Mexican city to figure out how the city makes sense of both herself and her many Others in the face of constant change. It puts the city on the couch and works through her past and present relationships, analyzing issues surrounding sexuality, the compulsion to repeat, transferences and desires.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1847
Category : English literature
ISBN : UCAL:B3010714

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The New Monthly Magazine and Universal Register by Anonim Pdf

Author : Gustav Kobbé
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547155218

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The Complete Opera Book by Gustav Kobbé Pdf

This is one of the most comprehensive books ever written about opera. Not only does it contain stories of operas but also music from some of the famous arias. It is so well regarded that it has been updated many times, the latest being 1997. Mr Kobbe, unfortunately, died in an accident before the book was finished, but it was finished posthumously and the indices and photographs arranged for him.

Author : Amy Allen
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780231552714

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Critique on the Couch by Amy Allen Pdf

Does critical theory still need psychoanalysis? In Critique on the Couch, Amy Allen offers a cogent and convincing defense of its ongoing relevance. Countering the overly rationalist and progressivist interpretations of psychoanalysis put forward by contemporary critical theorists such as Jürgen Habermas and Axel Honneth, Allen argues that the work of Melanie Klein offers an underutilized resource. She draws on Freud, Klein, and Lacan to develop a more realistic strand of psychoanalytic thinking that centers on notions of loss, negativity, ambivalence, and mourning. Far from leading to despair, such an understanding of human subjectivity functions as a foundation of creativity, productive self-transformation, and progressive social change. At a time when critical theorists are increasingly returning to psychoanalytic thought to diagnose the dysfunctions of our politics, this book opens up new ways of understanding the political implications of psychoanalysis while preserving the progressive, emancipatory aims of critique.

Author : George Henry Hubert Lascelles Earl of Harewood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 794 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Opera
ISBN : UVA:X002270577

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Opera by George Henry Hubert Lascelles Earl of Harewood Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1376 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : UVA:X002288765

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Bulletin of the U.S. Department of Agriculture by Anonim Pdf

Author : Nathan Kravis
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780262036610

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On the Couch by Nathan Kravis Pdf

How the couch became an icon of self-knowledge and self-reflection as well as a site for pleasure, transgression, and healing. The peculiar arrangement of the psychoanalyst's office for an analytic session seems inexplicable. The analyst sits in a chair out of sight while the patient lies on a couch facing away. It has been this way since Freud, although, as Nathan Kravis points out in On the Couch, this practice is grounded more in the cultural history of reclining posture than in empirical research. Kravis, himself a practicing psychoanalyst, shows that the tradition of recumbent speech wasn't dreamed up by Freud but can be traced back to ancient Greece, where guests reclined on couches at the symposion (a gathering for upper-class males to discuss philosophy and drink wine), and to the Roman convivium (a banquet at which men and women reclined together). From bed to bench to settee to chaise-longue to sofa: Kravis tells how the couch became an icon of self-knowledge and self-reflection as well as a site for pleasure, privacy, transgression, and healing. Kravis draws on sources that range from ancient funerary monuments to furniture history to early photography, as well as histories of medicine, fashion, and interior decoration, and he deploys an astonishing array of images—of paintings, monuments, sculpture, photographs, illustrations, New Yorker cartoons, and advertisements. Kravis deftly shows that, despite the ambivalence of today's psychoanalysts—some of whom regard it as “infantilizing”—the couch continues to be the emblem of a narrative of self-discovery. Recumbent speech represents the affirmation in the presence of another of having a mind of one's own.

Author : John Tidd Pratt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1837
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0020286582

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A Collection of the ... Statutes passed in the last session (7 Will. 4 & 1 Vic.), as far as relates to the office of a Justice of the Peace, etc by John Tidd Pratt Pdf

Author : Samuel Holland-Rous
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781434479198

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The Victrola Book of the Opera by Samuel Holland-Rous Pdf

In depth descriptions of various operas with scene by scene, aria by aria accounts.

Author : Ethan Mordden
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190877699

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The New Book of Opera Anecdotes by Ethan Mordden Pdf

Building on the long-established success of Ethan Mordden's Opera Anecdotes, The New Book Of Opera Anecdotes continues where the original left off, bringing into view the new corps of major singers that arose after the first book's publication in 1985 -- artists such as Renee Fleming, Roberto Alagna, Deborah Voigt, Jonas Kaufmann, Kathleen Battle, and Jane Eaglen (who tested her family with Turandot's three riddles and got a very original answer). There are also fresh adventures with opera's fabled great -- Rossini, Wagner, Toscanini (whose temper tantrums are always good for a story), Franco Corelli, Luciano Pavarotti, Leontyne Price (who, when the Met's Rudolf Bing offered her the voice-killing role of Abigaille in Verdi's Nabucco, said, "Man, are you crazy?"). Almost all the stories in The New Book Of Opera Anecdotes are completely new, whether from the present or the past, taking in many historical developments, from the rise of the conductor to the appearance of the gymmed-up "bari-hunk" who refuses to play any role in which he can't appear shirtless. While most of Mordden's anecdotes are humorous, some are emotionally touching, such as one recounting a Met production of Mozart's The Marriage Of Figaro in which Renee Fleming sang alongside her own six-year-old daughter. Other tales are suspenseful, as when Tito Gobbi shows off his ability to make anyone turn around simply by staring at his or her back. He tries it on Nazi monster Joseph Goebbels, who does turn around, and then starts to move toward Gobbi, seething with rage, step by step... Mordden recounts these stories in his own unique voice, amplifying events for reading pleasure and adding in background material so the opera newcomer can play on the same field as the aficionado. Witty, dramatoic, and at times a little shocking, The New Book Of Opera Anecdotes will be a welcome addition to any opera fan's library.