„Pescărușul” de A.P. Cehov și factorii visului teoretizați de Sigmund Freud
Chekhov's "The Seagull" and Freud's Mechanisms of Dream-Work

Summary/Abstract: In this section from her phD thesis (work in progress), The Dramaturgy of Liminality: from the rewriting of the ritual to the rewriting of the theatre play, Maria Manolescu Borșa analyses Chekhov’s The Seagull. The play is analysed from the perspective of liminality, a term borrowed from Arnold van Gennep that Victor Turner, together with Richard Schechner, consacrated both in antropology and Performing Studies during the sixties and seventies. While the whole thesis aims to reframe the concept of liminality in the context of Drama Studies and test its efficacity in playwrighting, this section analyses how the four factors of dream-work discovered by Sigmund Freud (condensation, displacement, visual quality and secondary revision) could become an instrument for the playwright interested in dramatising the liminal phases of individual characters or groups, and, more specifically, how Freud’s four factors of dream creation are put to work in Chekhov’s The Seagull.

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