“He could not fucking die”: le tie-game dans Sabbath’s Theater de Philip Roth

Organized as a diptych to reproduce the inner organization of the novel, the present article aims to show that Sabbath’s Theater stages a fight between Eros and Thanatos that apparently results in an unexpected tie-game of a nature to challenge many a theoretical aesthetic and psychoanalytical assum...

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Hlavní autor: Amfreville, Marc
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Jazyk:Français
Vydáno: 2021
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spelling cairn-RFEA_166_0021RFEARevue française d’études américaines https://shs.cairn.info/revue-francaise-d-etudes-americaines-2021-1-page-21?lang=fr https://doi.org/10.3917/rfea.166.0021 “He could not fucking die”: le tie-game dans Sabbath’s Theater de Philip Roth Amfreville, Marc2021 instinct de mortpsychanalysepulsion de vietransgressiontraumafre Revue française d’études américaines | 166 | 1 | 2021-04-26 | p. 21-32 | 0397-7870 RFEA_16648 Organized as a diptych to reproduce the inner organization of the novel, the present article aims to show that Sabbath’s Theater stages a fight between Eros and Thanatos that apparently results in an unexpected tie-game of a nature to challenge many a theoretical aesthetic and psychoanalytical assumption. The energies of the Love Instinct are pit up against the forces of the Death Drive in the arena of a constant confrontation of harrowing obscenity and transgression juxtaposed with distressing representations of the haunting of death and forebodings of suicide. Highly destabilizing, the text thus locks its reader in a theater of rejection and sympathy that does not leave him/her unscathed, and ultimately produces an experiment in form that helps understand why Roth considered it his best achievement.Cairn restricted access
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topic instinct de mort
psychanalyse
pulsion de vie
transgression
trauma
spellingShingle instinct de mort
psychanalyse
pulsion de vie
transgression
trauma
Amfreville, Marc
“He could not fucking die”: le tie-game dans Sabbath’s Theater de Philip Roth
topic_facet instinct de mort
psychanalyse
pulsion de vie
transgression
trauma
description Organized as a diptych to reproduce the inner organization of the novel, the present article aims to show that Sabbath’s Theater stages a fight between Eros and Thanatos that apparently results in an unexpected tie-game of a nature to challenge many a theoretical aesthetic and psychoanalytical assumption. The energies of the Love Instinct are pit up against the forces of the Death Drive in the arena of a constant confrontation of harrowing obscenity and transgression juxtaposed with distressing representations of the haunting of death and forebodings of suicide. Highly destabilizing, the text thus locks its reader in a theater of rejection and sympathy that does not leave him/her unscathed, and ultimately produces an experiment in form that helps understand why Roth considered it his best achievement.
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title “He could not fucking die”: le tie-game dans Sabbath’s Theater de Philip Roth
title_short “He could not fucking die”: le tie-game dans Sabbath’s Theater de Philip Roth
title_full “He could not fucking die”: le tie-game dans Sabbath’s Theater de Philip Roth
title_fullStr “He could not fucking die”: le tie-game dans Sabbath’s Theater de Philip Roth
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