낭독극의 정신분석학적․교육적 함의

초록

This article reinterprets reading theatre from a psychoanalytic perspective in order to demonstrate that it is not merely a preliminary form of performance or a mode of textual transmission, but rather a performative site in which the Real irrupts under contemporary linguistic conditions. In a digital media environment where language and voice are increasingly datafied and dematerialized, reading theatre calls for renewed attention as a theatrical form that restores the temporality and corporeality of speech, as well as the surplus of voice that resists reduction to meaning. Focusing on the metatheatrical structure of reading theatre, this study analyzes how the failure of empathy and identification renders the division of the subject visible, and argues that voice functions in this process as the Lacanian objet petit a. It further conceptualizes the return of the gaze within conditions of visual deprivation and identifies the Real of tuché—emerging through contingent moments such as silence, mistakes, and tears—as a crucial event in reading theatre. By examining the circulation of transference and countertransference between actors and spectators, this article illuminates how reading theatre subverts educational paradigms oriented toward the completion of understanding and instead operates as an ethical experience of enduring what cannot be understood. Ultimately, this reconceptualization situates reading theatre, across the domains of theatre, psychoanalysis, and education, as a contemporary practice that functions both as a performative event in which the Real is articulated and as a catalyst for the ethical formation of the subject.

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