Teatro das emoções e emoções no teatro: diálogos entre neurociência e Stanislávski

Abstract

This research analyzes the perspectives of Stanislavski’ system as proposed by the Russian director Constantin Stanislavski (1863 – 1938) in dialogue with recent proposals of the neurobiology of emotions. It begins with the main definitions about emotions in western history, starting with Plato and reaching conceptions posed by the Portuguese neuroscientist Antonio Damásio (1944) who investigate the production and interpretations of the human emotions. The work focuses on the proposals of the “organic” interpretation by Stanislavski, mainly on the concept and procedures of what has been called emotive memory. This discussion is based on the findings of the French psychologist Théodule-Armand Ribot (1839- 1916), and his concept of affective memory (in French, la memoire affective; In Russian, Affectivnaia pamiat’) that underpinned the concept used by Stanislavski. At the end, the thesis establishes the neurobiological construction that pervade the Stanislavski’ system.