Abstracts
Résumé
Krapp’s Last Tape (La dernière bande) de Beckett soulève la question de ce qu’il advient de la voix silencieuse du traumatisme si on l’enregistre. En silence, nous « entendons » les échos post-traumatiques et les contre-mélodies du corps traumatisé de Krapp – une réverbération somatique et technologiquement médiatisée que Mladen Dolar appelle l’« objet voix ». La voix émanant du magnétophone prend la fonction curative du thérapeute qui fixe en silence son patient traumatisé, l’incitant à entrer dans un débat avec la reconstitution viscérale de son traumatisme. Les objets voix enregistrés de Krapp, comme son rire, sa toux et ses silences, sont des avatars d’une contre-mélodie; ils servent d’ancre réconfortante et rendent sa blessure plus accessible.
Abstract
Beckett’s play Krapp’s Last Tape raises the question of what happens to the silent voice of trauma when it is recorded on tape. In silence, we “hear” the post-traumatic echoes and countermelodies of Krapp’s traumatized body – a somatic and technologically mediated reverberation, which Mladen Dolar calls the “object voice”. The voice from the tape recorder assumes the healing function of a therapist who gazes at his traumatized patient in silence, prompting him to enter into a debate via the visceral reenactment of his trauma. Krapp’s recorded object voices – his laughter, cough, and silences – are the avatars of a post-traumatic countermelody that serve as a comforting anchor and render his trauma more accessible.
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