Mimesis, Masochism, &Mime

The Politics of Theatricality in

Contemporary French Thought
Edited by
Timothy Murray
Ann Arbor
THE UNIVERSITY or MICHIGAN PRESS
Contents
Timothy Murray
Introduction: The Mise-en-Scene of the Cultural I 1
Part i Mimesis Imposed
Machineries of Representation I 27
Helene Cixous
Hors Cadre Interview I 29
Jacques Derrida
The Theater of Cruelty and the Closure of Representation I 40
Luce Irigaray
The Stage Setup I 63
Rene Girard
From Mimetic Desire to the Monstrous Double I 87
Part 2 Tragedy and Masochism
Scene as Other I 113
Louis Matin
The U t opi c Stage I 115
Andre Green
The Psycho-analytic Reading of Tragedy I 136
Jean-Frangois Lyotard
The Unconscious as Mise-en-Scene I 163
Philippe Lcuoue-Labarthe
Theatrum Analyticum I 175
viii I Contents
Part 3 Staging Power
Transgressive Alterity I 197
Louis Althusser
The "Piccolo Teatro": Bertolazzi and BrechtNotes on a
Materialist Theater I 199
Michel Foucault
Theatrum Philosophicum I 216
Gilles Deleuze
One Less Manifesto I 239
Frantz Fanon
Algeria U nveiled I 259
Part 4 Like a Film
Theatrical Dispositions I 275
Julia Kristeva
Modern Theater Does Not Take (a) Place I 277
Jean-Frangois Lyotard
The Tooth, the Palm I 282
Josette Firal
Performance and Theatricality: The Subject Demystified I 289
Regis Durand
The Disposition of the Voice I 301
Contributors I 311
Index I 315