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Record W2745768737 · doi:10.3138/md.0850r

Samuel Beckett’s Hypnotic Theatre

2017· article· en· W2745768737 on OpenAlex
Corey Wakeling

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venuePublished in a venue whose home country is Canada.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueModern Drama · 2017
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicSamuel Beckett and Modernism
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsDramaturgySubject (documents)HypnosisContext (archaeology)Psychoanalytic theoryParallelsPsychoanalysisPsychologyLiteratureArtAestheticsHistoryComputer scienceMedicine

Abstract

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Exemplary works of hypnotic dramaturgy in Samuel Beckett’s work include three plays enjoying special attention at present: Not I (1972), Footfalls (1976), and Rockaby (1981). Historically, hypnosis was used in the clinics of Jean-Martin Charcot and Josef Breuer, among others. Hypnotically compromised characters from the psychoanalytic corpus, such as Anna O. and Blanche Wittman, demonstrate parallels with the protagonists of Beckett’s three plays. I argue that Beckett develops a hypnotic dramaturgy that simulates hypnotic character worlds in order to stage the affective problems of verifying the truth of memory. Specifically, theatrically simulating hypnotic situations draws spectators into intimate, sensory contact with the human subject’s ultimately false self-witnessing. My firsthand experience of the three plays in production provides a contemporary context to consider memory and the subject in Beckett’s theatre. In particular, actor Lisa Dwan and director Walter Asmus’s Royal Court production in 2014 signals the plays’ capacities for eliciting an affectively prone, empathic spectatorship.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies, Scholarly communication, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.720
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0020.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.098
GPT teacher head0.276
Teacher spread0.178 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it