Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors vii
Acknowledgments x
Epigraph xiii
1 Psychoanalysis and Opera: A Felicitous Match Steven H. Goldberg Lee Rather 1
2 The Internal World of Don Giovanni Richard Rusbridger 11
3 Across the Great Divide: Reflections on the Moral Reversal in Mozart's The Magic Flute Lee Rather 25
4 Lucia di Lammermoor: An Intersection on the Oral and Aural Roads Julie Jaffee Nagel 38
5 Transformation Through the Other: Senta and The Flying Dutchman L. Eileen Keller 51
6 The Orpheus of All Secret Misery: The Expression of Profound Grief in Wagner's Tristan Und Isolde John J. H. Muller IV 61
7 The Dark Matter of Wagner's Dream: Chaos and Creativity in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Jeanne C. Harasemovitch 76
8 Evil as Sadistic Perversion in Tosca Amy Tyson 91
9 Sliding Walls and Glimpses of the Other in Puccini's Madama Butterfly Steven H. Goldberg 108
10 Elektra: Traumatic Loss and the Impossibility of Mourning Catherine Mallouh 120
11 Yearning for Intimacy: Bela Bartók's Duke Bluebeard's Castle Anna Balas 134
12 Reflections on Applied Analysis and a Secret Program in Alban Berg's Wozzeck Ralph H. Beaumont 150
13 Janácek's Eternal Feminine: The Makropulos Affair Adele Tutter 166
14 Billy Budd: A Study in Envy and Repression Milton Schaefer 182
15 Sendak and Knussen's Where the Wild Things Are: A Developmental Journey Debbie Hindle 188
Appendix 204
Index 219