Thèse soutenue

Visage, masque et jeu

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Auteur / Autrice : Julie Dior
Direction : Michel Corvin
Type : Thèse de doctorat
Discipline(s) : Études théâtrales
Date : Soutenance en 1994
Etablissement(s) : Paris 3

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This thesis begins with the idea of a certain reciprocity between the face and the masque. This idea is contained in the greek word prosopon, which designates the face as well as the mask and thus indicates that the two are in an inseparable couple-relationship. By introducing a separate word for "face", the romans fatally altered this concept. Topology, the science of variations and invariables, confirms ancient greek thought on the mask : the mask is simply the most exagger ated example of the transformations of a face which is itself in a perpetual state of change or becoming. More profondly , all subjects for lacan, and all languages for jakobson, are a construction of or a play between metaphore and metonymy. The subject is a pure signifier, deprived of essence-- a series of masks-- which lacan illustrated by means of topolog ical figures and the mask itself. Deleuze, serres and badiou have, each in their own manner, incorporated this concept in discourses that are, however, very different one from the other. After its initial exposition, this theory of masks i s articulated in several contexts : baroque court festivities using arcimboldo's paintings as a point of departure, pira ndello and the calling into question of identity, the image in the mirror and the double in theatre, the cinematographic c lose-up as mask, as well as a selection of contemporary mises en scene. The final chapter introduces the category of r eal, or that which resists all attempts at formalization and which is thus radically distinct from symbolical (metaphorical) and imaginary (metonymical). A reflection follows on what the topological concept of identity signifies f or the mask and the face in theatre.