Introduction to “The Act and the Show: Performing Arts, Cinema, Psychoanalysis”

Abstract

This special dossier of Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai. Dramatica gathers the Proceedings of the second edition of the International Conference on Cinema, Theatre and Psychoanalysis and also the papers of some international researchers interested in the Freudian and the Lacanian psychoanalysis. The conference took place in Cluj-Napoca on October 26-27, 2019, and was organized by Noemina Câmpean and Flaviu Câmpean (Forum of the Lacanian Field in Romania), in collaboration with professor Ioan Pop-Curșeu from the Faculty of Theatre and Film at Babeș-Bolyai University. The theme was The Act and the Show, with reference to cinema, theatre and psychoanalysis in the context of the recent cultural transformations. The keynote speaker was José Monseny Bonifasi (Member of EPFCL, AME, Psychoanalyst and Psychiatrist, director IPB, Institut per a la Clinica Psico Social Barcelona, Spain) and the invited speaker was Giovanni Rotiroti (Professor PhD at the L’Orientale University from Naples, Italy).