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Enjoying the operatic voice : a neuropsychoanalytic exploration of the operatic reception experience /

"There has been a long-standing and mutually-informing association between psychoanalysis, literature and the arts. Surprisingly, given the oral/aural basis of the 'talking cure', music has largely been overlooked by psychoanalysis. Notably, neuroscientific research investigating musi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Zuccarini, Carlo (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Wilmington, Delaware : Vernon Press, [2018]
Colección:Cognitive science and psychology.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Setting the scene
  • A (very) concise history of opera
  • The historical tension between words and music in opera
  • Prima la musica o le parole?
  • The 'layers' of opera
  • Feminism, queer theory, gender and opera
  • Opera at the nexus of psychoanalysis and the neurosciences (neuropsychoanalysis)
  • Opera and psychoanalysis
  • Applying psychoanalysis to music
  • some considerations
  • The voice and the gaze
  • The big 'O' in opera
  • Symbolic, imaginary and real
  • The operatic voice and the fetish
  • The transitional experience of opera
  • Music and (neuro)science
  • The origins of music and singing
  • Music: culture, society, language and memory
  • The overlap between the neural processing of music and language
  • How music is processed in the brain and enjoyed
  • The music and emotion debate
  • Music, emotion, gender and sexuality
  • The duet between psychoanalysis and neuroscience
  • What is the origin and nature of the powerful emotional response that is evoked in some listeners by the operatic voice?
  • Does enjoyment of the operatic voice have something erotic about it?
  • The reception of the operatic voice: from the neural processing of acoustic input to the subjective experience of vocal jouissance
  • a theoretical formulation
  • Grand finale.