The Representational Logic

of Order and Inversion

Double Anatomy and the Iconography
of the Human Body
in the Early Modern Emblematic Theater
 Double Anatomy and Inversion

1. The Early Modern Emblematic Theater

2. The Thematization of Disorder and Heterogeneity

3. The Representational Logic of the Emblematic Stage

4. Double Anatomy: Early Modern and Postmodern Analogies

5. Inversion in the Vertical Dimensionality

6. Gábor Bódy’s Theater of Consciousness: Double Self-anatomy

7. The Stage of the Mind: Early Modern and Postmodern Techniques

 The Emblematic Theater
 high semioticity
 theatrum mundi
 iconographic
traditions
 microcosm -
macrocosm
philosophy
 representation of
ordered harmony
 The Thematization of Disorder and
Heterogeneity
 the stage as emblem
of order also functions
as the thematization
of disorder, discord,
controversy
 violation of harmony
 transgression of rules
 mutilation of
wholeness
 The Representational Logic of the
Emblematic Stage
 horizontal
dimesionality -
Weimann: platea
and locus, agents of
involvement
 vertical
dimensionality:
heaven, earth,
uderworld
 Double Anatomy
 Anatomization of order
and disorder
 Public theater + anatomy
theater: traditions of
social spectacle,
epistemological
investment: expansive
inwardness
 Dissection of human body
and mind
 Inversion in the Vertical
Dimensionality
 Disorder is
foregrounded by
mocking the esoteric
thesis of Hermes
Trismegistos
 Representatives of
the underworld are
metapositioned on
the top – the
transcendental is
dislocated
 Inversion in the Vertical Space
 The Spanish Tragedy:
The Allegory of
Revenge
 Titus Andronicus:
Aaron
 Hamlet: the Ghost
 The Revenger’s
Tragedy: the Skull
Gábor Bódy’s Theater of Consciousness: double
self-anatomy

 Hamlet’s stage of
consciousness
 The stage as brainstuff
 Self-reflexive autopsy
 Memory-theater
 Testing the materiality
of signification
 Mind-ear parallel
The Stage of the Mind
Vertical Dimensionality Up
The Stage of the Mind
The Brain and the Ear
 The Stage of the Mind
Corporeal and Mental Disintegration
The Stage of the Mind
Vertical Dimensionality Down
The Stage of the Mind
The Iconography of the Cross
 The Stage of the Mind
„The Brutal Materiality of the Letter”
The Stage of the Mind
„Might Be the Devil”
 The Stage of the Mind
Costume and Character: Postmodern
 The Stage of the Mind
Labyrinth of Tunnels in the Brain
 The Stage of the Mind
Hamlet and Ophelia: Nerves and Impulses
The Stage of the Mind
Polonius Entangled
The Stage of the Mind
Ophelia Entangled
 The Stage of the Mind
„The Book and Volume of My Mind”
The Stage of the Mind
Making Death Familiar
 The Stage of the Mind
Memento Mori – Memento Mockery
The Stage of the Mind
Vertical Dimensionality Down
„This Is I, Hamlet, the Dane!”