The chapter will discuss if comfort is sacrificed for the greater gain of the sensuous knowledge offered by performance works that may make the audience feel uncomfortable. This jointly authored chapter will explore the discomfort created by performance practice in terms of an ethical sacrifice in sacrifice something is given up for a greater gain. The author-narrator attempts to reconstruct his childhood in order to illustrate, explain, and finally understand the brother’s illness, which shaped his own life.Ī standard ‘Ethical Approval’ form issued by British Universities asks researchers to consider ‘a risk assessment of the project based on the vulnerability of participants, the extent to which it is likely to be harmful and whether there will be significant discomfort’.1 This chapter will examine the consequence of imposing a social science model of ethical approval on a practice that is in some cases defined by the vulnerability of participants, be that either the artist or the audience, and the possibility of harm to them if there is an opportunity for ‘significant discomfort’. In Epileptic’s use of both a communal linguistic and more subjective visual semiotic we can read the text as a graphic representation of the Unconscious, in psychoanalytic terms, particularly as formulated in confrontation with the mysterious sickness. Throughout the course of the story, the disease acts as a major motive force both in terms of plot and character development. This somewhat contradictory existence has dire consequences on the development of the younger siblings’ mentalities and is reflected in their adult lives. recites his childhood as the younger brother of the epileptic Jean-Christophe, whose condition casts a heavy pall over the lives of the family his illness does not respond to medical treatment, forcing his parents to search for alternative therapies driving the whole family into a spiral of spiritualism, mysticism and occultism. This paper focuses on how illness is presented via the graphic medium and how the very use of it creates the premises for understanding illness as a mental fermentation of unconscious instability and the Unconscious itself.
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