Dossiê Temático - Corpos Falantes: ressonâncias no teatro contemporâneo e na psicanalise

For this Thematic Dossier, Urdimento – Journal of Studies in Performing Arts – will receive articles until September, 20, 2026. These articles must be included in Urdimento, v.3, n. 59, December 2026.

The Editorial Committee proposing this Thematic Dossier is composed of the following professors: Luciana Eastwood Romagnolli, Universidade de São Paulo (Coordinator - USP/CNPq); Sílvia Fernandes, Universidade de São Paulo (USP); Antônio Teixeira, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG); Flavia Cera, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC); Gresiela Nunes da Rosa, Universidade do Sul de Santa Catarina (UNISUL); Patrick Pessoa, Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF).

Dossier proposal:

Since the 1970s, in contemporary art—with the shift toward performance art—and in psychoanalysis—with Jacques Lacan’s elaborations on the speaking body—the body has been called into question. And discourses on bodies have been contested. After all, which body are we talking about? What is produced by identifications of an imaginary order, and what escapes them? How can we avoid excluding from discourses on bodies the dimension of desire, the unconscious, the drive, and jouissance?

In the expression “speaking body,” the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan brings together language and jouissance, for “in the speaking being, jouissance is linked to language” (Jacques Lacan, The Seminar: The Sinthome, Book 23 [1975–1976], Rio de Janeiro: Zahar, 2007, p. 75).

So, what happens between the body and language? What can we hear from the speaking bodies on stage?

 What interplay exists between image, language, and drive in contemporary art? How are performance artists crafting their connections and disconnections on stage? What position do these artists adopt when speaking about bodies, the idea of the self as a body, and the body as the other?

How do artistic forms reshape bodily forms? And what are the effects of the dominant discourses of our time?

Do art and writing offer new ways of using the body that open up new possible paths for the malaise of our times, as it manifests itself uniquely in each speaking body?

 Quais as consequências de se aproximar a ética da arte contemporânea da ética da psicanálise enquanto ética do singular?

Suggestions for approaches:

  • Discourses on the body in the contemporary scene: confinements, inconsistencies, tensions, and propositions
  • Body, image, and what lies beyond the mirror: the shaping of the imaginary and its limits
  • The instinctual in the performing arts: the gaze and the voice
  • Effects of linguistic resonances and linguistic inventions on the body
  • Consequences of an ethics of the singular for a critical perspective on the scene
  • Ways of making (oneself) a body in the performing arts

In addition to articles, the dossier will include submissions in the following formats: reports, debates and dramaturgy.

All submitted articles are evaluated using a double-blind system (peer review); publication will occur after approval by two ad hoc reviewers.

To publish in Urdimento n.59, the interested party must first register as an author at the link: http://www.revistas.udesc.br/index.php/urdimento/user/register

Then, the article must be submitted to the OJS platform at the URDIMENTO link by September 20, 2026: http://www.revistas.udesc.br/index.php/urdimento

Articles must be submitted in accordance with the Guidelines for Authors, at the link:

http://www.revistas.udesc.br/index.php/urdimento/about/submissions