Psychoanalysing Mind-Body Narratives through Beckett and Artaud

The Trauma of the Body

This book provides an epistemology of the body as it relates to subjectivity through an analysis of selected works of Antonin Artaud and Samuel Beckett. It explores the premise that there is a traumatic and alienating dimension to embodiment that resists expression within representational systems and is core to the being of any subject.

This book provides an epistemology of the body as it relates to subjectivity through an analysis of selected works of Antonin Artaud and Samuel Beckett. Presented in three parts, the book explores a fundamental premise: that there is a traumatic and alienating dimension to embodiment that resists expression within representational systems and is core to the being of any subject.

In Part One, The Epistemology of the Body, Meehan OCallaghan approaches a theory of the body as traumatic by framing it as a question, a gap in knowledge through the lens of psychoanalysis an