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A Bunch of Body and Blood – Tennessee Williams’ Suddenly Last Summer

Majewska, Joanna, Majewska, Joanna

Nauka > 2021 > 4

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Three's a crowd: Stella's pregnancy and the arrival of an “other” in A Streetcar Named Desire

Daniel Jacobs

International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies > 16 > 3 > 174 - 180

This paper explores the difficulties that may arise for some men when their wives become pregnant. The advent of a child may threaten the intense marital dyadic relationship on which a man may depend. The author explores how this particular threat to a husband's sense of security is manifest dramatically in Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire. In this reading of the play, Stella's pregnancy...

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TWO PSYCHOTIC PLAYWRIGHTS AT WORK: THE LATE PLAYS OF AUGUST STRINDBERG AND TENNESSEE WILLIAMS

GEORGE MANDELBAUM

The Psychoanalytic Quarterly > 86 > 1 > 149 - 182

August Strindberg and Tennessee Williams both became severely deranged during their playwriting careers. Both emerged from the most intense form of their derangement and wrote plays afterward. Strindberg, however, wrote his greatest plays after his psychosis; Williams, before his. Strindberg's psychosis spurred his creativity; that of Williams severely damaged his. This paper proposes that Strindberg...

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Reconstructing an Identity: A Psychoanalytical Reading of The Night of the Iguana by Tennessee Williams

Leila Rezaei Hezaveh, Nurul Farhana Low Bt Abdullah, Md Salleh Yaapar

International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies > 12 > 4 > 325 - 335

This paper attempts to detect Tennessee Williams's psychological development in his last successful play The Night of the Iguana (1961) in comparison with his previous plays which pronounced his fragmented identity. A comparison between Tennessee Williams's Suddenly Last Summer (1958) and The Night of the Iguana detects a sudden shift of the dramatist's mind in the application of symbols and images...

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Creativity, “Twinning,” and Self-Destruction in the Life and Work of Tennessee Williams

Maria T. Miliora

Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies > 2001 > 3 > 2 > 127-148

Applying an eclectic psychoanalytic framework, this paper provides a thematic link between the core experiences of Williams' early life and his creative work. Both preoedipal and Oedipal themes are elucidated. The central issue that dominated Williams' mental life was his struggle between a sense of suffocation and confinement, on the one hand, and having artistic and sexual freedom, on the other...

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A Bunch of Body and Blood – Tennessee Williams’ Suddenly Last Summer

Three's a crowd: Stella's pregnancy and the arrival of an “other” in A Streetcar Named Desire

TWO PSYCHOTIC PLAYWRIGHTS AT WORK: THE LATE PLAYS OF AUGUST STRINDBERG AND TENNESSEE WILLIAMS

Reconstructing an Identity: A Psychoanalytical Reading of The Night of the Iguana by Tennessee Williams

Creativity, “Twinning,” and Self-Destruction in the Life and Work of Tennessee Williams

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