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The World of Samuel Beckett

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The World of Samuel Beckett brings together a distinguished group of authorities, among them Beckett's longtime associates and colleagues Herbert Blau and Martin Esslin. In a chapter on Beckett's "Enough," Blau concedes that parts of the playwright's work can be lyrical and beguiling, but "it's still an appalling vision." Esslin (who coined the term "theater of the absurd") challenges the notion that Beckett is difficult or depressing, arguing instead that he is basically a comic writer, gallows humor thought it be. Angela Moorjani sees Beckett's writing as the product of a cryptic text...

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The World of Samuel Beckett brings together a distinguished group of authorities, among them Beckett's longtime associates and colleagues Herbert Blau and Martin Esslin. In a chapter on Beckett's "Enough," Blau concedes that parts of the playwright's work can be lyrical and beguiling, but "it's still an appalling vision." Esslin (who coined the term "theater of the absurd") challenges the notion that Beckett is difficult or depressing, arguing instead that he is basically a comic writer, gallows humor thought it be. Angela Moorjani sees Beckett's writing as the product of a cryptic text inscribed within. Bennett Simon, a psychiatrist who has written extensively on Beckett, examines the self in current art and psychoanalysis. Joseph H. Smith emphasizes that Beckett, like Freud and Lacan, challenges any notions of "cure" as the easy achievement of happiness.

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The psychoanalytic vision that informs the majority of the articles (those of the academic scholars as well as those of the practitioners of psychiatry) sheds important new light on Beckett's work.

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Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Quaquaquaqua: The Babel of Beckett
Chapter 2. Enough or Too Little? Vpoicings of Desire and Discontent in Beckett's "Enough"
Chapter 3. Seven Types of Postmodernity

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Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Quaquaquaqua: The Babel of Beckett
Chapter 2. Enough or Too Little? Vpoicings of Desire and Discontent in Beckett's "Enough"
Chapter 3. Seven Types of Postmodernity: Several Types of Samuel Beckett
Chapter 4. A Cryptanalysis of Beckett's Molloy
Chapter 5. The Whole Story
Chapter 6. "Tender Mercies": Subjectivity and Subjection in Samual Beckett's Not I
Chapter 7. Post Apocalypse with Out Figures: The Trauma of Theater in Samuel Breckett
Chapter 8. Recovering the Néant: Language and the Unconscious in Beckett
Chapter 9. The Fragmented Self, the Reproduction of the Self, and Reproduction in Beckett and in the Theater of the Absurd
Chapter 10. Self-objectification and Preservation Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape
Chapter 11. Notes on Krapp, Endgame, and "Applied" Psychoanalysis
Chapter 12. Telling It How It Is: Beckett and the Mass Media
The Less Said
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Joseph H. Smith, M.D.

Joseph H. Smith, M.D., is supervising and training analyst at the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute and president of the Washington Psychoanalytic Society. He is editor of Psychoanalysis and Religion.
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