Academic literature on the topic 'Henrik Ibsen 1828-1906. Peer Gynt'

This thesis examines the content and reception of Ibsen's Peer Gynt. Chapter I begins with a summary of Ibsen's life and influences, placing Ibsen and his plays into a historical context. Chapter II is a detailed explication of .Peer Gynt, which illustrates the correlation between Ibsen's biography and Peer's life, the extensive use of Nordic folklore and the philosophy of Kierkegaard, Goethe, and Hegel. These issues and ideas are examined in order to create a theory of Ibsen's intended message to the public. In chapter III the immediate reception of Peer Gynt in Scandinavia is discussed, as well as the extended reception of Peer Gynt in Germany. This demonstrates the difference in the critics' reception, in relation to their time period, culture, and translation. The nationalistic German Dietrich Eckart is an extreme example of how a trusted translator of Peer Gynt produced a falsified translation of the dramatic poem, which he used to promote an ideal specific to his time period and culture, thus illustrating how a falsified translation can affect the interpretation and criticism of a text. The thesis concludes by demonstrating how important translation is as a factor in the critical reception of a text.

Esta investigação consiste de uma leitura psicanalítica da peça Peer Gynt, de Henrik Ibsen. Inicialmente, o autor apresenta a obra mencionada de forma sintética e explicita a sua trajetória de conhecimento e interesse pela obra. Em seguida, situa sua leitura numa tradição que remonta não apenas à longa história das interpretações psicanalíticas de obras de arte, mas também àquela das análises realizadas sobre essa obra em particular. Dentre as últimas, apresenta e critica as análises feitas sobre a peça por W. Reich, G. Groddeck, M. Little e R. May. Também resgata os comentários de Freud sobre Ibsen e suas obras. A partir daí, apoiando-se em uma perspectiva metodológica dialógica, inspirada por M. Bahktin, bem como no método psicanalítico de investigação, o autor investe na criação de uma construção interpretativa do drama. Ao longo dessa construção, certas passagens da obra ganham visibilidade e sentidos renovados a partir do diálogo com referenciais teórico-clinicos de alguns autores da psicanálise contemporânea (D. Winnicott, C. Bollas, T. Ogden, entre outros). É desta forma que certos temas como a impossibilidade de sonhar, a mentira, o trauma, a convenção, o falso, a amorfia, o self, entre outros, vão surgir e ser desdobrados. Tal investigação se torna, por fim, uma possibilidade de ampliar e atualizar a compreensão da peça, inserindo-a no debate sobre a condição humana desde o viés do pensamento psicanalítico contemporâneo
This research consists of a psychoanalytic reading of Henrik Ibsens play \"Peer Gynt\". Initially, the author presents the aforementioned play in a concise way and makes explicit the history of his knowledge and interest for this work. Then he places his reading amongst a tradition that goes back not only to the long history of psychoanalytic interpretations of works of art, but also to that of the interpretations about this particular work. Among the latter he presents and criticizes the interpretations made by W. Reich, G. Groddeck, M. Little and R. May. He also recollects Freud\'s comments on Ibsen and his works. Thereafter, relying on a dialogical methodological perspective, inspired by M. Bahktin, as well as on the psychoanalytic method of investigation, the author engages in drawing up an interpretative construction on the drama. Throughout this construction, certain parts of the play gain visibility and renewed meanings rise from the dialogue with theoretical and clinical references from some contemporary psychoanalytic authors (D. Winnicott, C. Bollas, T. Ogden, and others). This is how certain themes such as the impossibility of dreaming, the lie, the trauma, the convention, the false, the formlessness, the self, and others will appear and be unfolded. This research becomes, finally, an opportunity to broaden and update the understanding of the play, casting it into the debate around the human condition from the bias of contemporary psychoanalytic thought