Psychological and psychoanalytical issues in Schreker’s opera “Die Gezeichneten” [Psychologische und psychoanalytische Grundlagen in Schrekers Musikdrama ?Die Gezeichneten“]

摘要

Franz Schrekers opera “Die Gezeichneten” is the artistically answer to Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalysis. The proceedings in this drama discuss some principles of psychoanalyses. The figures show typical psychological mechanisms like repression, sublimation or regression and also the typical symptoms of neurosis. During the date of origin of the opera, Freud’s method of psychoanalysis becomes well known and a lot of physicians and psychologists begin with their education in it. Themes like the theory of sexuality by Freud were discussed in the Vienna society. The story contains all mechanisms of psychoanalysis and discloses the psychopathology of the society of “fín de siègle” on the end of the 19th century. Franz Schreker’s opera is like a forecasting of the nemesis, which in Europe occurs two decades later. The figures of the opera show the central facts of psychoanalysis and their artificial expression in music and performance.