y separately published work icon Blind Salome single work   drama   - Two acts
Issue Details: First known date: 1985... 1985 Blind Salome
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Notes

  • Foreword: When Sandra Shotlander first mentioned Blind Salome to me in the winter of 1983, she said she was going to write a play about Carl Jung, Emma Jung and Toni Wolf. Althhough these individuals have receded into the background, nevertheless it is the dynamics of their relationships with one another that provide the basis for the characters in the play. In addition, psychiatry provides the intellectual framework.

    In writing the play, Sandra was searching for a way to comment upon Jungian theories of the unconscious, and in particular the part played by the 'anima' (represented, according to Jung, in his own life by fellow analyst and lover, Toni Wolf.) ...Sandra Shotlander, in Blind Salome, challenges these theories. She suggests that men may be chasing a hidden, ungraspable entity in seeking solace in women and in the idea of the 'anima', but women have no such desire to seek out their animus....Susan Hawthorne. Melbourne, 1985.

Production Details

  • First produced at the Universal Theatre, Melbourne, 22 May 1985

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Works about this Work

Breaking New Ground: An Interview with Sandra Shotlander Jocelyn McKinnon (interviewer), 1992 single work interview
— Appears in: Australasian Drama Studies , October no. 21 1992; (p. 48-59)
'Vox Populi?' The Image of Psychiatry in Australian Literature Michael Dudley , 1990 single work criticism
— Appears in: Left, Right or Centre? Psychiatry and the Status Quo 1990; (p. 1-25)
Sandra Shotlander Speaks Rosemary Curb (interviewer), 1986 single work interview
— Appears in: Belles-Lettres (US) , September vol. 2 no. 1 1986; (p. 5)
Breaking New Ground: An Interview with Sandra Shotlander Jocelyn McKinnon (interviewer), 1992 single work interview
— Appears in: Australasian Drama Studies , October no. 21 1992; (p. 48-59)
'Vox Populi?' The Image of Psychiatry in Australian Literature Michael Dudley , 1990 single work criticism
— Appears in: Left, Right or Centre? Psychiatry and the Status Quo 1990; (p. 1-25)
Sandra Shotlander Speaks Rosemary Curb (interviewer), 1986 single work interview
— Appears in: Belles-Lettres (US) , September vol. 2 no. 1 1986; (p. 5)
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