10.4225/03/592383266d63c
Kevin Brown
Kevin
Brown
Samuel Beckett and the Presence of Memory
Monash University
2017
Samuel Beckett
Lois Oppenheim
Wilfred Bion
Waiting for Godot
Endgame
Krapp’s Last Tape
Happy Days
Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies
Literary Studies not elsewhere classified
2017-05-23 00:32:30
Journal contribution
https://bridges.monash.edu/articles/journal_contribution/Samuel_Beckett_and_the_Presence_of_Memory/5027753
Lois Oppenheim approaches the work of Samuel Beckett from a psychoanalytic point of view in the article “A Preoccupation With Object Representation: The Beckett–Bion Case Revisited.” Oppenheim asks, “why would an author endowed with as rich a visual memory as Beckett’s place the preoccupation with memory, the anxiety of remembrance, at the forefront of his art? . . . To what extent, more precisely, might there be a disturbance in object representation deriving from pathology in the writer’s own inner representational world?” In order to answer this question, Oppenheim brings Wilfred Bion, Beckett’s psychiatrist, to the forefront.