Tools and Techniques for Character Interpretation: A Handbook of Psychology for Actors, Writers, and DirectorsActor and author Blumenfeld offers practical suggestions and exercises for applying different theories of psychology, such as psychoanalysis, object relations, and existentialism, to character interpretation. He explains these various theories and their terminology and offers character studies that exemplify psychological concepts based on characte |
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... ANALYSIS FROM FREUD ONWARD | 1 Introduction | 3 The Actor's Art and Psychology : Theoretical and Practical Considerations 1. Sigmund Freud , Father of PSYCHOANALYSIS | 13 Prologue : The Study of Hysteria and the Beginnings of ...
... ANALYSIS FROM FREUD ONWARD | 1 Introduction | 3 The Actor's Art and Psychology : Theoretical and Practical Considerations 1. Sigmund Freud , Father of PSYCHOANALYSIS | 13 Prologue : The Study of Hysteria and the Beginnings of ...
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... ANALYSIS | 135 The Emotional Plague , 137 ; Character Armoring , 138 ; Questions and Considerations : The Practical Application of Reichian Ideas to Character Interpretation , 141 ; Body / Character Armoring : An Actor's Exercise in ...
... ANALYSIS | 135 The Emotional Plague , 137 ; Character Armoring , 138 ; Questions and Considerations : The Practical Application of Reichian Ideas to Character Interpretation , 141 ; Body / Character Armoring : An Actor's Exercise in ...
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Contents
Sigmund Freud Father of PSYCHOANALYSIS | 13 |
ANNA FREUD | 71 |
MELANIE KLEIN AND OBJECTRELATIONS THEORY | 89 |
CARL GUSTAV JUNG | 111 |
Georg Groddeck AND The Book | 123 |
WILHELM REICH AND CHARACTER ANALYSIS | 135 |
THE THEORIES OF WILLIAM James | 151 |
PSYCHOLOGICAL TERMS AND TOPICS | 175 |
SHAKESPEARES TIMELESS PSYCHOLOGICAL THEMES | 229 |
The Development | 253 |
ANTON CHEKHOV | 265 |
Six MODERN PLAYS | 283 |
Selected Bibliography | 309 |
Acting and Theater 309 Plays and Playwrights 310 Psychology and Psychoanalysis | 317 |
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S PART | 221 |
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