In this paper, I offer a phenomenological meditation on Sarah Kane’s theatre, exploring mental illness as illness of existential being. To do so, I bring into dialogue personal lived experience and phenomenological psychopathology, depicting a particular form of literarian articulation of experiences that I define 'theatre of Erlebnisse'. The aim is not to construct a systematic philosophical interpretation of Kane’s work as though it were a theoretical edifice, but rather to navigate its tensions through phenomenological tools that seek to contemplate the complexity of its interwoven dimensions of psychopathology, literature, and aesthetic outrage.

Meditazioni kaneane. Il teatro di Sarah Kane: la malattia nell'essere e la psicopatologia fenomenologica / Santamato, S.. - In: SCENARI. - ISSN 2385-1139. - (2026).

Meditazioni kaneane. Il teatro di Sarah Kane: la malattia nell'essere e la psicopatologia fenomenologica

Simone Santamato
2026-01-01

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In this paper, I offer a phenomenological meditation on Sarah Kane’s theatre, exploring mental illness as illness of existential being. To do so, I bring into dialogue personal lived experience and phenomenological psychopathology, depicting a particular form of literarian articulation of experiences that I define 'theatre of Erlebnisse'. The aim is not to construct a systematic philosophical interpretation of Kane’s work as though it were a theoretical edifice, but rather to navigate its tensions through phenomenological tools that seek to contemplate the complexity of its interwoven dimensions of psychopathology, literature, and aesthetic outrage.
2026
Sarah Kane, theatre, phenomenological psychopathology, phenomenology, literature
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