Theatre and Psychoanalysis: or Jung on Martin Crimp's Stage: “100 Words”

This article explores Martin Crimp’s use of Jung’s word association test in his masterpiece Attempts on Her Life (1997). In scenario 11, the playwright reproduces the list of one hundred stimulus words devised in 1909 by the psychoanalyst to test a patient’s mental health. Our point is that this “co...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Solange Ayache
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centre de Recherche "Texte et Critique de Texte" 2009-12-01
Series:Sillages Critiques
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/sillagescritiques/1838