AN OBJECT THAT INCLUDES ALL: ART OF MUSIC AS A SINTHOME

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2023-9

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Gagua, Neli

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The most fundamental factor in a subject’s structuration is the relationship between the subject and the Other. All of the psychic mechanisms of an individual, the mirror stage, language, defence mechanisms, identification, organization of partial drives, experiences of lack, and sinthome is structured via the fundamental relationship. In order to study this dynamic comprehensively, the narrative analyses of professional musicians, pianists and violinists who began their education at an early age were conducted. The reasons behind selecting this population are (1) music’s inherent nature of containing a language-like structure that is also rich in the imaginary aspect, (2) the voice being an invocatory drive, (3) music and the instrument being a condensed object and relationship between the teacher and the student being intense, and (4) inclusion of the experiences of the stage. These qualities are considered a suitable representation of the relationship between the subject and the Other with various mechanisms. At the end of the analysis that was conducted in alliance with Polkinghorne’s analysis of narratives, five main sections emerged: (1) They Were Always There, (2) Encounter, (3) That Precious Other, (4) The Dark Side / The Object That Takes It All, and (5) The Reward / The Object That Gives You All. Keywords: Psychoanalysis, Music, Narrative Analysis, The Subject, The Other

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Psychoanalysis, Music, Narrative Analysis, The Subject, The Other

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/105303

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis