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Author | : Kari Barclay |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 215 |
Release | : 2023-10-25 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 3031312228 |
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Directing Desire explores the rise of consent-based and trauma-informed approaches to staging sexually and sensually charged scenes for theater in the contemporary U.S., known as intimacy choreography. From 2015 to 2020, intimacy choreography transformed from a grassroots movement in experimental and regional theaters into a best practice accepted in Hollywood and on Broadway. Today, intimacy choreographers have become a veritable "intimacy industry" in the cultural sphere, sparking attention from Rolling Stone to The New York Times to the sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live. This book analyzes the forces that have led to intimacy choreography’s meteoric rise and asks what implications the field has for theater practice more broadly. Building a theoretical framework for intimacy directing, Directing Desire also strives to reorient the conversation in the field so that artists understand not only best practices in consent but also intersectional frameworks that expand and rework consent.
Author | : Kari Barclay |
Publisher | : Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-10-11 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9783031312212 |
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Directing Desire explores the rise of consent-based and trauma-informed approaches to staging sexually and sensually charged scenes for theater in the contemporary U.S., known as intimacy choreography. From 2015 to 2020, intimacy choreography transformed from a grassroots movement in experimental and regional theaters into a best practice accepted in Hollywood and on Broadway. Today, intimacy choreographers have become a veritable "intimacy industry" in the cultural sphere, sparking attention from Rolling Stone to The New York Times to the sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live. This book analyzes the forces that have led to intimacy choreography’s meteoric rise and asks what implications the field has for theater practice more broadly. Building a theoretical framework for intimacy directing, Directing Desire also strives to reorient the conversation in the field so that artists understand not only best practices in consent but also intersectional frameworks that expand and rework consent.
Author | : Barry McCarthy |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2013-12-17 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 1135919291 |
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For over a decade Rekindling Desire has helped to restore and restructure sexuality in thousands of lives. This expanded edition continues the exploration of inhibited sexual desire and no-sex relationships by the author, who brings decades of knowledge and the expertise that comes from having treated almost 3,000 couples for sexual problems. Contained within are suggested strategies and exercises that help develop communication and sexual skills, as well as interesting case studies that open the doors to couples’ sexual frustrations. The shame, embarrassment, and hesitancy that individuals feel with themselves, and the resentment and blame they can feel towards their sexual partners, are explored and put into context. Whether you are married, cohabitating, or dating, or if you are 25, 45, or 75, reading this book will help renew your sexual desire and put you on the path towards healthy, pleasure-oriented sexuality.
Author | : Mark Gerard Murphy |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 2023-10-27 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 3031331079 |
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This book examines Lacanian psychoanalysis and Christian mystical theology demonstrating the former’s potential for reinvigorating spiritual direction. The author outlines how current methods of spiritual direction become saturated with self-help psycho-pop methodologies, and that desire has therefore been foreclosed in these practices. He suggests that the root of this is a focus on ‘positive affective experientialism’, which means spiritual direction must focus on emotional wholeness, healing and positivity. Finally, he argues that a new dialogue between John of the Cross (a mystic whose writings on spiritual direction formulate part of the core of the Catholic spiritual tradition) and Jacques Lacan can open the way for a spiritual direction beyond the confines of experientialism. The book concludes that we can only escape the experiential commodification of spiritual direction by critiquing the drive to experience in and of itself. This novel work will appeal in particular to students and scholars of psychoanalysis, religion, philosophy and critical theory.
Author | : Kari Bjorn Senkowski Barclay |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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From 2016 to 2020, intimacy choreography transformed from a grassroots effort into a best practice accepted on film sets and Broadway productions. Influenced by fight choreography and movement direction, intimacy choreographers deploy a repertoire of consent-based practices to craft scenes of sex and sexuality for performance. Directing Desire analyzes the rise of intimacy choreographers in the twenty-first century as a product of colliding norms of consent culture and sex positivity. While intimacy choreography consciously emphasizes consent, the practice more subtly challenges a central assumption of sex positivity: that intimacy should express sexual interiority. Intimacy choreography separates performer and character; it creates what I term "simulated sexuality, " the iterative and citational performance of sexual desire in a theatrical frame. With this model, I advance theatrical intimacy beyond the logics of repression and liberation--what Michael Foucault calls the "repressive hypothesis"--that have governed the theater's treatment of sexuality since the advent of theatrical modernism in the United States. To ground theatrical intimacy historically, I analyze the spread of positivist models of sexuality in Stanislavskian and Method acting in the United States starting in the 1930s. Directors including Lee Strasberg and Sanford Meisner attempted to privatize theatrical intimacy as a product of the performer's individual desire. By contrast, I advance a de-privatized model of intimacy centering shared choreography and simulation, the "stylized repetition of acts" with difference. I apply this model to twenty-first-century playscripts and performances from Jeremy O. Harris, Alice Birch, Thomas Bradshaw, and Punchdrunk, among other artists. A focus on shared choreography makes intimacy more accessible to survivors of sexual violence, subjects on the asexual spectrum, and those hypersexualized and desexualized by cultural stereotypes. Beyond promoting consent, intimacy choreography can craft a "sexual commons" in which artists negotiate their relationship to intimacy in the wake of racialization and empire.
Author | : David Webster |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Buddhism |
ISBN | : 9780415346528 |
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David Webster explores the notion of desire as found in the Buddhist Pali Canon. Beginning by addressing the idea of a 'paradox of desire', whereby we must desire to end desire, the varieties of desire that are articulated in the Pali texts are examined. A range of views of desire, as found in Western thought, are presented as well as Hindu and Jain approaches. An exploration of the concept of ditthi(view or opinion) is also provided, exploring the way in which 'holding views' can be seen as analogous to the process of desiring. Other subjects investigated include the mind-body relationship, the range of Pali terms for desire, and desire's positive spiritual value. A comparative exploration of the various approaches completes the work.
Author | : F. LeRon Shults |
Publisher | : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Total Pages | : 205 |
Release | : 2011-07-06 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 0802866263 |
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Traditional Christian theology has generally treated desire as a dark and negative force intimately related to sin something to be restricted and repressed, closeted and controlled. But, according to LeRon Shults and Jan-Olav Henriksen s Saving Desire, we see only part of the picture if we do not also perceive that desire can be a powerful force for great good. Grounding their work firmly in the experiential realm of human life, the eight eminent theologians contributing to this volume celebrate together the positivity, the sociality, and the physicality of saving desire that is, humankind s innate desire not only for the good life but also, more vitally, for the life-transforming goodness of God.
Author | : R. Edwards |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2016-04-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1137057017 |
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This book reformulates the master narrative of erotic discourse in medieval literature. Individual chapters offer fresh readings of the nature and claims of erotic attachments in Abelard and Heloise, Marie de France, Jean de Meun, Dante, Boccaccio, and Chaucer - writers profoundly influenced by Augustine and Ovid.
Author | : Rachel H. Lesser |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2022-10-06 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 0192866516 |
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This is the first study to examine desire in the Iliad in a comprehensive way, and to explain its relationship to the epic's narrative structure and audience reception. Rachel H. Lesser offers a new reading of the poem that shows how the characters' desires, especially those of the mortal hero Achilleus and the divine king Zeus, motivate plot and keep the audience engaged with the epic until and even beyond its end. The author argues that the characters' desires are primarily organized in narrative triangles that feature two parties in conflict over a third. A variety of desires animate these triangles, including sexual passion, longing for a lost loved one, yearning for lamentation, and aggressive desires for vengeance and status, and they are signified with terms such as eros, himeros, pothe, menos, thumos, boule, and eeldor, as well as through the epic's thematic emotions of grief and anger. Desire in the Iliad shows how the mortals' and gods' triangular desires together d and shape two Iliadic plots, the main plot of Achilleus' withdrawal from the fighting and then return to battle, and the "superplot" of the larger Trojan War story. The author also argues that these plots and their motivating desires arouse the listener's-or reader's-own corresponding desires: narrative desire to know and understand the Iliad's full story, sympathetic desire for characters' welfare, and empathetic passions, longings, and wishes. Our desires invest us in the epic narrative and their resolution brings us satisfaction.
Author | : Todd McGowan |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2016-09-20 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0231542216 |
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Despite creating vast inequalities and propping up reactionary world regimes, capitalism has many passionate defenders—but not because of what it withholds from some and gives to others. Capitalism dominates, Todd McGowan argues, because it mimics the structure of our desire while hiding the trauma that the system inflicts upon it. People from all backgrounds enjoy what capitalism provides, but at the same time are told more and better is yet to come. Capitalism traps us through an incomplete satisfaction that compels us after the new, the better, and the more. Capitalism's parasitic relationship to our desires gives it the illusion of corresponding to our natural impulses, which is how capitalism's defenders characterize it. By understanding this psychic strategy, McGowan hopes to divest us of our addiction to capitalist enrichment and help us rediscover enjoyment as we actually experienced it. By locating it in the present, McGowan frees us from our attachment to a better future and the belief that capitalism is an essential outgrowth of human nature. From this perspective, our economic, social, and political worlds open up to real political change. Eloquent and enlivened by examples from film, television, consumer culture, and everyday life, Capitalism and Desire brings a new, psychoanalytically grounded approach to political and social theory.