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AbstractAfter a brief examination of the concepts put forward as this issue's theme (transcendence, performance, ecstasy), the author asks if they can be applied to the forms of shamanism found in their “traditional” context in Siberia. These concepts are basic to the other notions which underlie the terminology involving ritual action in these forms of shamanism, notably that of “playing”. This notion, analyzed with Buryat examples, combines in an integrated whole several basic ideas of shamanic representation systems: the idea of documenting the wild animals one hunts, and even more, of the acting out of a harmonious exchange with nature. The idea of creating, in their image, the two fundamental duties of everyone: to mate (dance) and to defend oneself (fight). The idea of acting as if to elicit the corresponding action in real life. Finally, the idea of acting in such a way as to make gain possible. Thus, the act of “playing” translates the desire for “luck”.
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AbstractFaced with an uncertain social context, today's young Spanish playwrights are questioning History and their society by revisiting the process of staging. Some turn their plays into an analytical performance that deconstructs the subject (a social context structured by a text) through its expression (the non-verbal elements of the staging), and vice versa. This essay looks at this two-pronged approach using as an example a 2007 play by Angélica Liddell (born in Spain in 1966): Perro muerto en tintorería : los fuertes. In it, she heeds the tendency not only to destroy established processes but also reuse theater as a socio-political element. The play, a complex one, is a new and personal take on Rousseau's Social Contract in which Liddell wrecks the stage and tortures the text, spinning it through ever-changing rhythms. Social critique sheds light on such a “supratheatrical” approach by using the historical whole (to call on a crosian notion and its underlying elements) as the starting point for thinking.
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Levinas's position on art and literature keeps puzzling us by its ambivalence. Æsthetical experience now makes every ethical relation impossible, now it seems the very event of this relation. The theoretical texts and the essays on Proust and Celan show that the status of literary work in Levinas' thoughts structurally oscillates between aesthetics and ethics. It now makes us return to the impersonal reign of the "il y a", now opens up the face of the other. But does the exegesis imposed upon these texts by Levinas not operate an "ethical conversion of the aesthetic", disregarding all that is not the relation to the other ?
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Play is considered by several authors as the principal means used by the child to represent and communicate intrapsychic conflicts and relational difficulties, express unconscious fantasies, and elaborate and modulate anxieties related to these fantasies. Neglect and maltreatment within the early significant relationships may impair the development of the child's symbolic capacity. Physical and sexual abuse during childhood can also provoke a temporary loss of the child's ability for pretend play. Another consequence of maltreatment is the presence of post-traumatic themes and play activities related to a literal and compulsive repetition of traumas. This article presents the psychotherapy of a young girl who has been exposed to complex trauma before the age of 3. Firstly, the child's life history and different foster placements are recounted. Secondly, clinical examples are used to illustrate the symbolic and post-traumatic themes and play activities showed by the child in psychotherapy. The authors distinguish post-traumatic play segments from abreactive ones, the latter representing a moderate expression of the trauma. Finally, therapeutic attitudes and techniques aimed to facilitate the child's psychic elaboration of trauma are discussed.
Keywords: jeu, trauma, jeu traumatique, attitudes et stratégies thérapeutiques, enfant, play, trauma, post-traumatic pay, therapeutic attitudes and techniques, child