Foundations of the Everyday: Shock, Deferral, Repetition

The challenge here consists in maintaining both the individuality of one's dance and harmony with others. [...]in dance there is a striving towards mutual belonging, as well as a "refusal to merge" (69). "Play" would thus allow one to avoid the Freudian deadlock of "eit...

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Published in:Modernism/Modernity 2015, Vol.22 (1), p.214
Main Author: Clancy, Rockwell F
Format: Review
Language:English
Subjects:
Dance
Flexibility
Simmel, Georg (1858-1918)
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Summary:The challenge here consists in maintaining both the individuality of one's dance and harmony with others. [...]in dance there is a striving towards mutual belonging, as well as a "refusal to merge" (69). "Play" would thus allow one to avoid the Freudian deadlock of "either mechanically repeated or endlessly deferred" responses to shock (122). Since Freud ends up with "a theory of a shocking and shocked everyday life," "to understand a way out of this situation," Dorfman turns to "Benjamin's theory of modernity" (189).
ISSN:1071-6068
1080-6601
DOI:10.1353/mod.2015.0020