Propõe-se a realização de uma análise sobre a produção da infância em uma escola pública de educação infantil da cidade de São Paulo, a partir de uma teoria etnográfica que contemple os diversos contextos culturais e atores sociais envolvidos em sua produção. O objetivo desta análise é examinar a emergência de um drama infantil particular e a proveniência das crianças, que se constituem enquanto atores sociais no processo, embora a elas se atribua a qualidade de infante, por meio de um modo particular de relacionar-se com suas falas, regendo os sentidos por elas produzidos. Para evitar esta atribuição, a pesquisa deve escutar as falas infantis de um modo distinto daquele habitual, o que pode ser feito a partir da análise dos elementos residuais geralmente tidos como marginais nas experiências deste drama. Com o intuito de compreender a particularidade deste drama, enfatizaram-se os diferentes usos da mímesis na escola: como elemento na regência das relações de sentido e meio pelo qual se produz o organismo do ser aluno, mas, por outro lado, é preciso evidenciar a mímesis como fonte de estranhamentos em relação às realidades produzidas na escola, sobretudo a partir das performances e nos momentos de \"bagunça\". As brincadeiras apresentam-se como fontes para se compreender as perspectivas das crianças sobre as produções socioculturais de realidade em que elas se engajam: seja para tornar-se aluno, seja para distinguir-se enquanto menino ou menina. / It is proposed to conduct an analysis on the production of childhood in a public school of early childhood education in the city of São Paulo, from an ethnographic theory that considers the cultural context and social actors involved in its production. The purpose of this analysis is to examine the emergence of a childhood drama and the provenance of particular children, who are regarded as social actors in this social process which gives them their quality of infants through a particular way of relating with their speech, conducting the way they produce. To avoid this assignment, the research should listen to children speeches in a manner different from that usual, which can be done from the analysis of residual elements generally regarded as marginal in the experiences of this drama. In order to understand the peculiarity of this drama, emphasized the varying uses of mimesis in school: as an element in conducting of the relations of sense and means by which the body produces to be a student, but on the other hand, we must show mimesis as a source of estrangement from the realities produced in school, especially from the performances and moments of \"mess\". The games are presented as sources for understanding the perspectives of children on the production of socio-cultural reality in which they engage, is to become a student, is to distinguish himself as a boy or girl.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T14:00:16Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 FredericoN_DISSERT.pdf: 2022028 bytes, checksum: 1bab8c5920acff310991e54ecc05714c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-05-26 / The issue of creating productions of hybrid matrices has demanded, for more than three decades, the attention of several theater theorists (COHEN: 1995; LEHMANN: 2007). The study of philosophers (DELEUZE & GUATTARI: 1995) has contributed for new concepts of the scene. These artistic practices, depending on the context, have been generating, more and more, new ways of staging. I will discuss the contamination caused by Antonin Artaud in contemporary theater, and the theater s infection by the performance, based on the thought of Barbara Browning (1995), from its capacity to penetrate and invade territories, and installs a new system. I affirm that the Totem Group (Recife PE) was contaminated by the performance and analyze two performative plays of the group, their points of convergence and separation. The first one is Ita, the search for the origin, the animal devir; the second is Caosmopolita, the body as a reflex of urbanity / A quest?o da cria??o de encena??es de matrizes h?bridas tem demandado, h? mais de tr?s d?cadas, a aten??o de diversos te?ricos teatrais (COHEN: 1995; LEHMANN: 2007). O estudo de fil?sofos (DELEUZE & GUATTARI: 1995) tem contribu?do para novas conceitua??es da cena. S?o pr?ticas art?sticas, que dependendo do contexto, v?m gerando cada vez mais, novas formas de encena??o. Abordarei a contamina??o causada por Antonin Artaud no teatro contempor?neo, e a quest?o da infec??o do teatro pela performance, tomando como base o pensamento de Barbara Browning (1995), a partir da sua capacidade de penetrar e de invadir territ?rios, e instalar um novo sistema. Afirmo que o Grupo Totem (Recife PE) foi contaminado pela performance e analisarei duas encena??es perform?ticas do grupo, seus pontos de converg?ncia e distanciamento. A primeira ? Ita, a busca da origem, o devir animal; a segunda ? Caosmopolita, o corpo como reflexo da urbanidade

Propõe-se a realização de uma análise sobre a produção da infância em uma escola pública de educação infantil da cidade de São Paulo, a partir de uma teoria etnográfica que contemple os diversos contextos culturais e atores sociais envolvidos em sua produção. O objetivo desta análise é examinar a emergência de um drama infantil particular e a proveniência das crianças, que se constituem enquanto atores sociais no processo, embora a elas se atribua a qualidade de infante, por meio de um modo particular de relacionar-se com suas falas, regendo os sentidos por elas produzidos. Para evitar esta atribuição, a pesquisa deve escutar as falas infantis de um modo distinto daquele habitual, o que pode ser feito a partir da análise dos elementos residuais geralmente tidos como marginais nas experiências deste drama. Com o intuito de compreender a particularidade deste drama, enfatizaram-se os diferentes usos da mímesis na escola: como elemento na regência das relações de sentido e meio pelo qual se produz o organismo do ser aluno, mas, por outro lado, é preciso evidenciar a mímesis como fonte de estranhamentos em relação às realidades produzidas na escola, sobretudo a partir das performances e nos momentos de \"bagunça\". As brincadeiras apresentam-se como fontes para se compreender as perspectivas das crianças sobre as produções socioculturais de realidade em que elas se engajam: seja para tornar-se aluno, seja para distinguir-se enquanto menino ou menina. / It is proposed to conduct an analysis on the production of childhood in a public school of early childhood education in the city of São Paulo, from an ethnographic theory that considers the cultural context and social actors involved in its production. The purpose of this analysis is to examine the emergence of a childhood drama and the provenance of particular children, who are regarded as social actors in this social process which gives them their quality of infants through a particular way of relating with their speech, conducting the way they produce. To avoid this assignment, the research should listen to children speeches in a manner different from that usual, which can be done from the analysis of residual elements generally regarded as marginal in the experiences of this drama. In order to understand the peculiarity of this drama, emphasized the varying uses of mimesis in school: as an element in conducting of the relations of sense and means by which the body produces to be a student, but on the other hand, we must show mimesis as a source of estrangement from the realities produced in school, especially from the performances and moments of \"mess\". The games are presented as sources for understanding the perspectives of children on the production of socio-cultural reality in which they engage, is to become a student, is to distinguish himself as a boy or girl.

Le témoignage de quelques artistes balinais et non balinais est le point de départ de cette recherche sur les pratiques du topeng balinais, ainsi que les enjeux interculturels qui ont été soulevés à partir de ces expériences. Dans le milieu théâtral, Bali le récit-témoignage d’Antonin Artaud sur le théâtre balinais posera les bases de la création d’une imagerie de Bali et de ses manifestations performatives. À partir des années 1970, de nombreux artistes de théâtre voyagent à Bali pour apprendre in loco ces manifestations artistiques, en particulier le topeng. Inversement, des artistes balinais voyagent à l’étranger et s’établissent dans d’autres pays. Pour les artistes non balinais, le voyage à Bali a provoqué des moments de bouleversement divers. Cette recherche essayera de confronter les apprentissages et les bouleversements des artistes balinais et non balinais pour essayer de comprendre les différents rapports au masque et à l’apprentissage de la danse. Pouvons-nous établir des lignes de transmission de ces pratiques ? Quels rapports ces artistes étrangers ont entretenu avec le topeng, avec Bali et les Balinais eux-mêmes ? Quelle est la perception de certains artistes balinais de ces étrangers ? Les différents aspects de la notion de taksu, couramment traduite par « présence de scène », seront approchés, pour essayer de comprendre les enjeux liés à ses différentes formulations. Finalement, pour moi, le voyage à Bali a signifié une transformation de ma cartographie personnelle, un changement de perspective m’amenant ainsi à repenser ce binôme Orient-Occident, tant présent dans les discussions concernant l’Asie. / Personal accounts of certain Balinese and non-Balinese artists are the point of entry of this research conducted on practices of the Balinese topeng art form, as well as the intercultural issues often emerging in such experiences. In the theatrical milieu, Antonin Artaud’s narrative-testimony would found the bases for the creation of a Balinese imaginary and its multiple performative manifestations. Beginning in the 1970s, many theatre artists voyaged to Bali to learn in loco about these different artistic manifestations, specifically topeng. Inversely, certain Balinese artists would voyage abroad, establishing themselves in other countries. For non-Balinese artists, the trip to Bali has prompted different types of upheaval. Such disruptive moments have been described as instances in which otherness is directly perceived. This research addresses the learning processes and the upheavals of Balinese and non-Balinese artists, attempting to understand the different links to the mask and to the teaching and learning of dance. Can we establish the means in which these practices are transmitted? What relations have foreign artists maintained with topeng, with Bali, with the Balinese, themselves? How do certain Balinese artists perceive foreigners? The different aspects of the notion taksu, frequently translated as “stage presence” will be analysed to better comprehend the issues surrounding its diverse formulations. Finally, engaging a personal viewpoint, my own voyage to Bali signified a transformation of my cartography, a change of perspective that permitted rethinking the binary East-West, which is so predominant in discussions concerning Asia.

Le phénomène de la création dans le cadre d’un discours sur la création – la production littéraire et artistique – ne va pas de soi. La tâche de le circonscrire comme un objet est antinomique : l’expérience du discours est en soi une création. Alors que le langage écrit semble au plus souvent «supprimer» l’auteur, le processus de création implique un «Je» créateur qui pense, qui se transforme, qui vit et dont la pensée s’imbrique à son objet qui, quant à lui, est «supprimé»; car il n’est pas extérieur à la pensée mais en relation avec elle. Ce travail, qui démontre le rapport complexe entre l’objet, la critique, le sujet et le commentaire, se penche donc sur l’«avant», le «pendant» et l’«après» de la création, dans un acte de mémoire, qui découle d’une performance littéraire sur la création. Des forces motrices informes et inconscientes, à la mise en forme jusqu’à la transmission, qui lui redonne un caractère d’informe, la création est en mouvement, comme le savoir est toujours prisonnier d’un «work in progress». Tributaire d’Antonin Artaud, le texte s’inscrit à partir de l’artiste en guise d’archétype existentiel, et s’y réfère constamment pour témoigner de la création sans la détacher de la vie et de ses expériences. Pour accéder au mystère du processus de création, lié à la pensée subjective, inobjectivable et irréductible au discours linéaire, ce travail met l’accent sur les associations de la pensée qui procède, exprimées par un «Je» exemplaire omniprésent, tatoué par l’expérience, mais à la position ambiguë à titre d’auteur. Processus de vie, de pensée et de création sont non seulement entremêlés, mais traversés par le champ du tout autre, historique, mondial et social, en perpétuelle évolution. Le rôle du créateur n’est pas de ne créer qu’à partir des connaissances extérieures à lui, mais à partir de lui-même – de son moi multiple et de sa pensée imprégnée de lectures et de ce qui le traverse et l’habite dans un temps donné – pour aboutir à la mise en forme d’un texte cohérent, d’une gravure particulière de l’esprit en marche vers le savoir, qui se situe toujours dans le devenir. / The creation phenomenon within a discourse on creation – the literary and artistic production – is not self-evident. The task to define it as an object is antinomic; the experience of discourse is in itself creative. While written language seems often to “suppress” the author, the creation process actually implies a creative “self” who thinks, lives and transforms itself, and whose thoughts are overlapping into its object, which is thus “suppressed” because it is not outside of thought, but bound to it. This work, showing the complex relationship between object, criticism, subject and comment, is focussed on the “before”, “during” and “after” portions of the creative process, in an act of memory that stems from a literary performance about creation. From the shapeless and unconscious forces at its origin, to the its shaping, and then transmission, which gives it back its shapeless form feature, creation is in motion as knowledge is always captive of the work in progress. Tributary of Antonin Artaud, the text acts as an existentialist archetype of the artist and refers to him constantly to show creation without separating it from life and its experiences. To access the mystery of the creative process, linked to subjective, non-objectivable tought irreducible to linear discourse, this work focuses on the associations within the mind that proceeds, expressed through an ever present and exemplary “self”, tainted by experience, but in the ambiguous position of author. The processes of life, thought and creation are not only intertwined but infused by the “outside”, which is historical, global, social and in perpetual evolution. The creator's function is not to create based solely on his external knowledge, but from within himself – from his multiple selves and his mind filled by what he reads, what goes through his mind and inhabits him at a given time – to eventually shape a coherent text, a specific engraving of the soul as it marches towards the knowledge always hiding in the becoming.

Este trabalho tem como objetivo abordar uma das obras mais importantes do escritor francês Antonin Artaud, Le Théâtre et son double, explorando o universo artaudiano, a partir de conceitos, como a peste e a crueldade. O estudo procura abordar a proposta de Teatro da Crueldade e as críticas feitas por Artaud em relação aos espetáculos apresentados na França na década de 1930. Por meio de uma crítica ao chamado teatro psicológico, Artaud exalta um teatro constituído por diversas linguagens, não restrito à mera reprodução do texto. Sem a pretensão de abordar a extensa obra escrita por Artaud, a dissertação tem como objetivo tratar de aspectos revelantes dos conceitos tratados por Artaud, como a crueldade e a peste, tentando identificar em sua proposta de teatro, o desenvolvimento de conceitos ligados à psicanálise, como a pulsão de morte. Procuramos, ainda, discutir o processo de criação de Artaud, problematizando a figura do Pai em sua escrita e a chamada outra cena do inconsciente que seria aberta pelo teatro da crueldade. / The purpose of this research is to analyse one of the most important works of Antonin Artaud, The Theater and its double (Le Théâtre et son double), exploring his universe from concepts like the pest and cruelty. The study seeks to analyse the proposal of the Theatre of Cruelty and the criticisms made by Artaud in relation to theatrical performances presented in France in the 1930s. By making a critique of the psychological theater, Artaud ideates a theater consisted of different languages, not restricted to the simple reproduction of the text. Without attempting to address the extensive work by Artaud, the dissertation aims to analyse some aspects of important concepts created by Artaud, as the cruelty and the pest, trying to identify in its proposal for the theater, as well as the development of concepts related to psychoanalysis, like the death drive. We also aim to discuss the creation process of Artaud, by analyzing the figure of the Father in his writing and the so called \"other unconscious scene\" that would be opened by the theater of cruelty.

Notre recherche porte sur un corpus d' œuvres réputées violentes produites par des artistes femmes au cours des années 1960 et dans la première moitié des années 1970. Ces pièces marquent une entrée fracassante des artistes femmes dans l'art, alors qu'elles y sont largement marginalisées. La première pa11ie démontre qu'après des années 1950 qui voient s'épanouir des pratiques abstraites quelque peu ouvertes aux femmes, les années 1960 marquent une aggravation de leur condition et un moment de moindre visibilité, dans le contexte de succession rapide des mouvements et d'expansion du marché.La seconde partie pose la question de l'affect et de leur usage de la psychanalyse dans un esprit de dépassement du surréalisme. La troisième pa11ie montre l'importance de la figure d' Artaud et du fou à l'œuvre dans un lecture politique et anarchiste de l'art corporel. Enfin, la demi ère partie énonce un paradoxe : l'art féministe n'est pas violent et rejette la violence; les pratiques les plus agressives sont le fait, toujours, d'artistes isolées ou transféré du côté du para-artistique .. Mettant en valeur la persistance de courants« chauds» en parallèle de mouvements réputés froids, ce travail invite à un infléchissement dans la définition des grands courants des années 1960 et 1970. Artistes: Louise Bourgeois, Niki de Saint-Phalle, Nancy Spero, Eva Hesse, Yayoi Kusama, Alina Szapocznikow, Annette Messager, VALIE EXPORT, Marina Abramovic, Gina Pane, ORLAN, Ana Mendieta, … / Our research deals with a group of works produced by women artists between 1960 and the first half of the 1970s. These pieces constitute the impressive apparition of women in art, though they are still largely marginalized. The first part of our study shows that, whereas the 1950s were a time for abstract practices still relatively open to women, in the 1960s their position as artists become more difficult and they Jack more visibility in the context of the succession of new "avant-garde" movements and the expansion of the market. The second part deals with the issue of "affect" et of the use they make of it, and of psychoanalysis, in a challenging spirit with surrealism. The third part focused on anarchy, anti-psychiatry, the figure do the "fool" and Antonin Artaud in the context of happenings and body art. The last part enounces a paradox: feminist art is non-violent; the most aggressive practices are by isolated women or transfered I para-artistic actions. Showing the persistence of "warm" trends within "cool" "avant-garde" movements, this study advocates for a move in the characterization of the great art movements of the 1960s and the 1970s. Artistes: Louise Bourgeois, Niki de Saint-Phalle, Nancy Spero, Eva Hesse, Yayoi Kusama, Alina Szapocznikow, Annette Messager, VALIE EXPORT, Marina Abramovic, Gina Pane, ORLAN, Ana Mendieta, …

[pt] Esta dissertação investiga modos discursivos não figurativos de apresentação da dor para, a partir disso, dar a ver possíveis modalidades enunciativas de auto-expressão que, mesmo reagindo a uma crise da representação, põem em questão uma acepção de real enquanto irrepresentável. O estudo se debruça sobre escritos de três autores que no século XX responderam com diferentes ênfases à questão aqui abordada: Ludwig Wittgenstein, Antonin Artaud e Henry Miller. A problemática que se desenha nesse trabalho é provocada pela predileção de Wittgenstein pelo tema da dor em suas Investigações Filosóficas no tratamento do argumento da linguagem privada. Wittgenstein, nesse ponto, incita a uma reflexão que se dirija às manifestações de linguagem relativas à dor, que não sendo a representação de um mundo interior do indivíduo, constituem comportamentos exercitados em determinados jogos de linguagem que lhes dão pertinência. ―Como posso, pois, querer colocar a linguagem entre a dor e a manifestação da dor? (IF, 245). Em um primeiro momento, empreende-se uma reflexão que, a partir das advertências de Wittgenstein, dirigida a questionar uma defesa do irrepresentável, busca uma leitura dos modos discursivos do próprio Wittgenstein para a apresentação de ocasiões em que a expressão da dor pela linguagem não sendo sua representação é um comportamento perante a dor. E, num segundo momento, uma leitura de obras de Antonin Artaud e Henry Miller cujo tratamento da dor, em perspectiva dessa leitura de Wittgenstein, apresenta modalidades discursivas empenhadas numa expressão não figurativa e avessas a uma acepção do real como irrepresentável. / [en] This dissertation investigates non-figurative discursive ways of presentation of pain to see, go on from there, the possible modalities of enunciation of self-expression that, even reacting to a crisis of representation, call into question a sense of real as unrepresentable. The study focuses on the writings of three authors in the twentieth century responded with different emphasis to the issue addressed here: Ludwig Wittgenstein, Antonin Artaud and Henry Miller. The issue that is shaping this work is caused by the predilection of Wittgenstein for the theme of pain in his Philosophical Investigations in the treatment of private language argument. Wittgenstein at this point calls for a reflection that addresses the manifestations of language related to pain, not being the representation of individual s inner world, constitutes behaviors exercised in specific language games that give them relevance. ―How I can even attempt to interpose language between the expression of pain and the pain? (PI, 245). First of all, it proposes a reflection that, from Wittgenstein s warnings, addressed to question a defense of the unrepresentable, looking for a reading of discursive modes of Wittgenstein s own for the presentation of occasions in which the expression of pain by language not being a representation is a behavior before the pain. And, secondly, a reading of works by Antonin Artaud and Henry Miller whose pain treatment, in view of this reading of Wittgenstein, presents discursive modalities engaged in a non-figurative expression and averse to a real sense as unrepresentable.

<p>This essay is an introduction to the intentions and purposes of the british play writer Sarah Kane (1971-1999). Her own voice is presented both via quotations linked to her work and by an explanation of her connections to the surrealist poet and actor Antonin Artaud. The main focus is on Kane’s second play, Phaedra’s Love, first performed in 1996. The play is analyzed in co-relation to La volonté de savoir, the first volume in Michel Foucault’s trilogy Histoire de la sexualité. The analysis concentrates on how the structures in society control and act in relationship to and in collision with desire.</p><p>In La volonté de savoir Michel Foucault presents the thesis that there exists a special talk about sex and sexuality. A talk that states that these are repressed issues. Foucault asserts that such a talk originates from several discourses and institutions in society and together they constitute a chain of power. In his analysis Foucault examines why we declare ourselves as oppressed and what consequences that generates. This essay relies heavily on an inquiry of these consequences and its discourses. The theories of Foucault are applied to Phaedra’s Love and explain the scenarios in which the social discourses of power collide and how they try to affect the characters and their desire. Together they make clear, that desire, in the play, is not primarily related to sex and sexuality. It is rather a desire; the object of which is the state of self-governed individuality. A need for an individual space in the discourses of talk. The main characters, Phaedra and Hippolytus, changed attitude concerning talk and silence result in a powerful social reaction. They both riot against a structure which maintains the standard discourses of power and knowledge. The riot is to be read as the final outcome of the society that surrounds them. The social reaction that comes with this exposes that the controlling discourses of power ultimately are based upon, not talk, but violence.</p><p>Several other aspects are of importance for the analysis and its conclusions even though they are not pointed out in this abstract. The play Phaedra’s Love and Foucault’s theories both operate on numerous levels at the same time, and as a whole, they both present experiences they wish the spectator/reader will reflect upon.</p> / <p>Uppsatsen ger en ingång till den brittiska dramatikern Sarah Kanes intentioner som pjäsförfattare. Hon kommer själv till tals via citat knutna till sin produktion och genom påvisade beröringspunkter med den surrealistiska poeten och skådespelaren Antonin Artaud. Tyngdpunkten ligger på Kanes andra pjäs; Phaedra’s Love, uruppförd 1996. Med stöd i Michel Foucaults Viljan att veta band 1 ur trilogin Sexualitetens historia undersöks det hur samhällets strukturer kontrollerar och verkar tillsammans med och i kollision med begäret i pjäsen.</p><p>Michel Foucault driver i Viljan att veta tesen att det finns ett särskilt tal om könet och sexualiteten, ett tal som hävdar att dessa är förtryckta. Foucault menar att ett sådant tal utgår från flera olika diskurser och institutioner i samhället och att de tillsammans utgör en maktens relation. Foucault undersöker i sin analys varför vi påstår oss vara förtryckta och vad det får för konsekvenser. Analysen av pjäsen fördjupar sig i dessa konsekvenser och dess diskurser under rubrikerna: ”Familj och monarki”, ”Tal och tystnad”, ”Begär”, ”Motstånd”, ”Bekännelse”, ”Samhälle” och ”Våld”. I varje avsnitt appliceras Foucaults teorier på Phaedra’s Love och förklarar det scenario som uppstår då samhällets maktstrukturer kolliderar med och försöker påverka rollfigurernas begär.</p><p>Genom analysen av pjäsen visar sig begäret inte primärt vara sexuellt relaterat utan rör istället begäret att agera som självständigt subjekt. Behovet av att ta subjektiv plats i talet och dess diskurser. Rollfigurernas förändring i förhållningssätt till talet och tystnaden och deras agerande därefter utlöser en kraftig reaktion från samhällets sida. Huvudrollerna Phaedra och Hippolytus gör uppror mot de strukturer som bibehåller makten och vetandets diskurser intakta. Deras agerande kan läsas som en reaktion provocerad ur det samhälle som omger dem. Samhällets reaktion mot detta visar, i sin tur, på att maktens kontrollerande diskurser ytterst inte ligger i talet utan i våldet.</p><p>Flera andra aspekter är av betydelse för analysen och dess slutsatser även om de inte poängteras här i sammanfattningen. Kanes pjäs rör sig liksom Foucaults teorier parallellt på flera genomgripande nivåer. Som helhet presenterar dock de båda en erfarenhet med en förhoppning om att åskådaren/läsarens ska ta tillvara densamma.</p>

This essay is an introduction to the intentions and purposes of the british play writer Sarah Kane (1971-1999). Her own voice is presented both via quotations linked to her work and by an explanation of her connections to the surrealist poet and actor Antonin Artaud. The main focus is on Kane’s second play, Phaedra’s Love, first performed in 1996. The play is analyzed in co-relation to La volonté de savoir, the first volume in Michel Foucault’s trilogy Histoire de la sexualité. The analysis concentrates on how the structures in society control and act in relationship to and in collision with desire. In La volonté de savoir Michel Foucault presents the thesis that there exists a special talk about sex and sexuality. A talk that states that these are repressed issues. Foucault asserts that such a talk originates from several discourses and institutions in society and together they constitute a chain of power. In his analysis Foucault examines why we declare ourselves as oppressed and what consequences that generates. This essay relies heavily on an inquiry of these consequences and its discourses. The theories of Foucault are applied to Phaedra’s Love and explain the scenarios in which the social discourses of power collide and how they try to affect the characters and their desire. Together they make clear, that desire, in the play, is not primarily related to sex and sexuality. It is rather a desire; the object of which is the state of self-governed individuality. A need for an individual space in the discourses of talk. The main characters, Phaedra and Hippolytus, changed attitude concerning talk and silence result in a powerful social reaction. They both riot against a structure which maintains the standard discourses of power and knowledge. The riot is to be read as the final outcome of the society that surrounds them. The social reaction that comes with this exposes that the controlling discourses of power ultimately are based upon, not talk, but violence. Several other aspects are of importance for the analysis and its conclusions even though they are not pointed out in this abstract. The play Phaedra’s Love and Foucault’s theories both operate on numerous levels at the same time, and as a whole, they both present experiences they wish the spectator/reader will reflect upon. / Uppsatsen ger en ingång till den brittiska dramatikern Sarah Kanes intentioner som pjäsförfattare. Hon kommer själv till tals via citat knutna till sin produktion och genom påvisade beröringspunkter med den surrealistiska poeten och skådespelaren Antonin Artaud. Tyngdpunkten ligger på Kanes andra pjäs; Phaedra’s Love, uruppförd 1996. Med stöd i Michel Foucaults Viljan att veta band 1 ur trilogin Sexualitetens historia undersöks det hur samhällets strukturer kontrollerar och verkar tillsammans med och i kollision med begäret i pjäsen. Michel Foucault driver i Viljan att veta tesen att det finns ett särskilt tal om könet och sexualiteten, ett tal som hävdar att dessa är förtryckta. Foucault menar att ett sådant tal utgår från flera olika diskurser och institutioner i samhället och att de tillsammans utgör en maktens relation. Foucault undersöker i sin analys varför vi påstår oss vara förtryckta och vad det får för konsekvenser. Analysen av pjäsen fördjupar sig i dessa konsekvenser och dess diskurser under rubrikerna: ”Familj och monarki”, ”Tal och tystnad”, ”Begär”, ”Motstånd”, ”Bekännelse”, ”Samhälle” och ”Våld”. I varje avsnitt appliceras Foucaults teorier på Phaedra’s Love och förklarar det scenario som uppstår då samhällets maktstrukturer kolliderar med och försöker påverka rollfigurernas begär. Genom analysen av pjäsen visar sig begäret inte primärt vara sexuellt relaterat utan rör istället begäret att agera som självständigt subjekt. Behovet av att ta subjektiv plats i talet och dess diskurser. Rollfigurernas förändring i förhållningssätt till talet och tystnaden och deras agerande därefter utlöser en kraftig reaktion från samhällets sida. Huvudrollerna Phaedra och Hippolytus gör uppror mot de strukturer som bibehåller makten och vetandets diskurser intakta. Deras agerande kan läsas som en reaktion provocerad ur det samhälle som omger dem. Samhällets reaktion mot detta visar, i sin tur, på att maktens kontrollerande diskurser ytterst inte ligger i talet utan i våldet. Flera andra aspekter är av betydelse för analysen och dess slutsatser även om de inte poängteras här i sammanfattningen. Kanes pjäs rör sig liksom Foucaults teorier parallellt på flera genomgripande nivåer. Som helhet presenterar dock de båda en erfarenhet med en förhoppning om att åskådaren/läsarens ska ta tillvara densamma.