Samuel Beckett and Disability Performance by Hannah Simpson;

Author:Hannah Simpson;
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783031041334
Publisher: Springer Nature

The externally determined or even involuntary movement, Dennis explains, can “disturb the comfortable opposition between compulsion and creative invention” (2018, 6). In turn, Laura Salisbury and Chris Code range across Beckett’s writing and his psychology reading to demonstrate how “Beckett’s obsession both with repetition and forms of mechanical reproduction, with language loosened from the tightened intentionality of a rational mind” in fact rarely results in “completely mindless” or unconsciously willed forms of compulsive speech in his work, but rather sit precariously on the borderland “between the intention and the automaticity both in and of words” (2016, 206, 211). Salisbury and Code turn specifically to Not I as one particularly apt illustration of their argument:Mouth’s language is hardly synonymous with intention and volition, nor is it the precipitate of conation; nevertheless, the compulsive push and pull that produces words spilling over with subjective affect demonstrates that mind is far from absent from the scene. […] The compulsive is not an escape from the mind; rather, it remains contaminated with and indeed driven by feeling. What emerges compulsively constellates within an affective, affected subject that remains sufficiently conscious to act as its own sometimes amused, sometimes melancholy witness.

(2016, 211, 213)

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