Abstract
Against the backdrop of the difficult therapeutic relationship between Tony Soprano and Jennifer Melfi and its embeddedness in the series’ dramaturgy, this article explores what psychoanalysis accomplishes for the US TV series The Sopranos (1999–2007), in particular for its perspectives on serial narratives and their reception. It analyses how select tenets of psychoanalysis (in particular, the psychoanalytic setting, countertransference, and its interminability) self-reflexively interrogate the aesthetics of serial narration and the ethical underpinnings of the audience’s attachment to the series.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Editorial
- Editorial
- Introduction
- The Aesthetics and Politics of Psychotherapy: Literary, Cultural, and Media Perspectives on ‘Healing the Soul’
- Articles
- Section I: Psychotherapy and Serial Television
- Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and the Aesthetics of Serial Narration in The Sopranos (1999–2007)
- Section II: Narratives of Psychotherapy
- The Danger of Counter-Transference and Need for Patient Voice in A. M. Homes’s In a Country of Mothers (1993) and Lidia Yuknavitch’s Dora: A Headcase (2012): “Story It”
- Towards a Poetics of Trauma and Healing: Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life (2015) and Helen Macdonald’s H Is for Hawk (2014)
- Section III: Theatre and/as Psychotherapy
- Theatre and Communal Movement as Forms of Trauma Therapy in Gregory Burke’s Black Watch (2007)
- Therapy-as-Theatre: Porosity and Circulations of Feeling in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s An Octoroon (2014) and Duncan Macmillan’s Every Brilliant Thing (2013)
- Book Reviews
- Stefanie Schäfer: Yankee Yarns: Storytelling and the Invention of the National Body in Nineteenth-Century American Culture
- Marzia Milazzo: Colorblind Tools: Global Technologies of Racial Power.
- Julia Leyda: Anthroposcreens: Mediating the Climate Unconscious
- Alexandra Hartmann: The Black Humanist Tradition in Anti-Racist Literature: A Fragile Hope
- Barbara Buchenau, Jens Martin Gurr, and Maria Sulimma: City Scripts: Narratives of Postindustrial Urban Futures
Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Editorial
- Editorial
- Introduction
- The Aesthetics and Politics of Psychotherapy: Literary, Cultural, and Media Perspectives on ‘Healing the Soul’
- Articles
- Section I: Psychotherapy and Serial Television
- Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and the Aesthetics of Serial Narration in The Sopranos (1999–2007)
- Section II: Narratives of Psychotherapy
- The Danger of Counter-Transference and Need for Patient Voice in A. M. Homes’s In a Country of Mothers (1993) and Lidia Yuknavitch’s Dora: A Headcase (2012): “Story It”
- Towards a Poetics of Trauma and Healing: Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life (2015) and Helen Macdonald’s H Is for Hawk (2014)
- Section III: Theatre and/as Psychotherapy
- Theatre and Communal Movement as Forms of Trauma Therapy in Gregory Burke’s Black Watch (2007)
- Therapy-as-Theatre: Porosity and Circulations of Feeling in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s An Octoroon (2014) and Duncan Macmillan’s Every Brilliant Thing (2013)
- Book Reviews
- Stefanie Schäfer: Yankee Yarns: Storytelling and the Invention of the National Body in Nineteenth-Century American Culture
- Marzia Milazzo: Colorblind Tools: Global Technologies of Racial Power.
- Julia Leyda: Anthroposcreens: Mediating the Climate Unconscious
- Alexandra Hartmann: The Black Humanist Tradition in Anti-Racist Literature: A Fragile Hope
- Barbara Buchenau, Jens Martin Gurr, and Maria Sulimma: City Scripts: Narratives of Postindustrial Urban Futures