Monologue / one-act play
Filippos Tlemon
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Comment: 1 and 2 are the adult and childish side respectively, of the same person. The conversation between them takes place inside his head.
1 (man)
Objective Data:
Throughout the play he is physically solid, except for the moment he changes seat, the moment he provokes 2 to go to a therapist, the moment he offers her a blank page and the moment he stands up to say goodbye to her.
His tone of voice is always steady.
He has the ability to create and he does it.
In the beginning he is focused on his creation.
Then, understanding 2’s paranoia, he gives her his full attention.
He can follow 2 into her paranoia.
He can come out of the paranoia whenever he wants.
When he sees that 2 does not want to come out from her paranoia, he goes back to his creation.
He gives 2 once more his full energy when he understand that she cannot help herself.
He is surprised when 2 leaves, but he doesn’t follow her and remains fixed in space.
Psychic Structure:
His mother accepted him and cared for him with love.
When he was an embryo and a newborn baby, his father was supportive and fulfilled the needs of his wife (1’s mother).
Furthermore, his dad supported him throughout his childhood.
The relationship of his parents was one of acceptance and love and his pregnancy was a result of an erotic intercourse which had love as its emotional background.
He would always experience love and acceptance as an embryo, as a newborn baby and as a child.
His parents accepted and loved him as a human being; they respected his needs and allowed him to express himself freely.
Emotional Paattern:
He doesn’t need to prove that he is something different from what he really is.
He accepts and loves any object (person or creation) for what it really is.
He expresses love and interest even when he knows that these are going to be rejected.
When he’s being rejected, he continues to express love and interest, without being invasive.
His creativity is focused.
He is emotionally self-sufficient in an adult way.
He loves and cares for all his creations.
He has a steady desire to complete whatever he creates, even if he faces difficulties.
He is solid against the emotional/irrational fluctuations of any object.
He stands firm and in an adult way, always in touch with the real reality, experiencing all the emotions.
He can withstand going into the paranoia of any object, because he is not afraid that the paranoia will consume him.
Throughout the play he is physically solid, except for the moment he changes seat, the moment he provokes 2 to go to a therapist, the moment he offers her a blank page and the moment he stands up to say goodbye to her.
His tone of voice is always steady.
He has the ability to create and he does it.
In the beginning he is focused on his creation.
Then, understanding 2’s paranoia, he gives her his full attention.
He can follow 2 into her paranoia.
He can come out of the paranoia whenever he wants.
When he sees that 2 does not want to come out from her paranoia, he goes back to his creation.
He gives 2 once more his full energy when he understand that she cannot help herself.
He is surprised when 2 leaves, but he doesn’t follow her and remains fixed in space.
Psychic Structure:
His mother accepted him and cared for him with love.
When he was an embryo and a newborn baby, his father was supportive and fulfilled the needs of his wife (1’s mother).
Furthermore, his dad supported him throughout his childhood.
The relationship of his parents was one of acceptance and love and his pregnancy was a result of an erotic intercourse which had love as its emotional background.
He would always experience love and acceptance as an embryo, as a newborn baby and as a child.
His parents accepted and loved him as a human being; they respected his needs and allowed him to express himself freely.
Emotional Paattern:
He doesn’t need to prove that he is something different from what he really is.
He accepts and loves any object (person or creation) for what it really is.
He expresses love and interest even when he knows that these are going to be rejected.
When he’s being rejected, he continues to express love and interest, without being invasive.
His creativity is focused.
He is emotionally self-sufficient in an adult way.
He loves and cares for all his creations.
He has a steady desire to complete whatever he creates, even if he faces difficulties.
He is solid against the emotional/irrational fluctuations of any object.
He stands firm and in an adult way, always in touch with the real reality, experiencing all the emotions.
He can withstand going into the paranoia of any object, because he is not afraid that the paranoia will consume him.
2 (woman)
Objective Data:
She feels that no one can understand her.
She believes that no one is able to communicate with her.
She feels that she is a giant.
She can’t stay still inside the room, except for when she sinks into her meaninglessness.
She rejects therapists.
She dwells constantly inside her paranoia.
She likes having chaotic conversations.
She is unable to create.
She justifies her inability with paranoid arguments: it’s the small form’s fault she is inactive.
She thinks that the small form is outdated, irrelevant, meaningless and she is tormented by it.
She thinks that she must create something more universal than her feelings, which are displayed by the small form.
She thinks the big form is relevant.
She can’t create in the big form, because she can't focus on something for a long time and that is tormenting her.
She is emotionally incapable of asking for real help from 1.
Each time 1 presents a solution to her problem, she gets angry and attacks him, both physically and verbally (rejection).
She seems that she wants to get away from 1, but when he implies that he is leaving, she can’t take it.
When 1 offers her his full attention, she rejects his interest, she rejects him and she leaves.
Psychic Structure:
Her mother was rejective. Furthermore, because she did not know what she wanted in life when she realized that she was pregnant to 2, she felt trapped in a life where she didn’t know where it was leading her.
Her mother felt anger/hatred towards her husband (2’s father), because she felt that he was caging her in a disgusting life and as a result she would withdraw into meaninglessness.
2’s mother also felt anger/hatred towards 2 as an embryo, because 2 was the child of the person who caged her and thus caged her even more into her disgusting life.
2 had fear of death as an embryo and as a newborn baby.
2’s father felt anger/hatred towards his wife (2’s mother), because he felt she was caging him into something lesser than his value, whose value was megalomaniacal and not real.
Her father was indifferent for the needs of his wife during her pregnancy, for the pregnancy itself and for 2 as an embryo, as a newborn baby and as a child.
The pain of 2’s trauma is due to the rejection she got from her parents as an embryo, as a newborn baby and as a child.
She experiences the pain of her trauma with hopelessness and despair.
The dynamic of the relationship between her mother and her father is that of a person who is caged and a person who cages. The person who is caged feels anger/hatred towards the person who caged him. There is a tendency to get free from this dynamic, which always fails. Because both persons continue to stay in the relationship, there is disgust and despair. The roles are always played both ways.
Emotional Pattern:
She has a great need for acceptance, because acceptance is connected to survival.
Acceptance comes out in a megalomaniacal way, which always leads to rejection.
Most of the times, she does not have the capability to succeed and experiences that someone cages her talent, which in reality does not exist.
The megalomaniacal elements with which she tries to achieve acceptance, are chaos and paranoia.
She is possessed by fear of death every time her megalomaniacal plan is rejected, i.e. she regresses back to the rejection of her mother and father.
She feels caged, when in fact she is not, or she is driven unconsciously to situations where she gets trapped.
She feels anger/hatred towards the person who cages her, whether he is real or not.
In the present she gets angry each time she feels caged, whether it is real or not.
In the present she gets angry and rejects (criticizes) anyone who shows real interest in her, because he hurts her by showing her the thing she never got from her parents.
She feels that no one can understand her.
She believes that no one is able to communicate with her.
She feels that she is a giant.
She can’t stay still inside the room, except for when she sinks into her meaninglessness.
She rejects therapists.
She dwells constantly inside her paranoia.
She likes having chaotic conversations.
She is unable to create.
She justifies her inability with paranoid arguments: it’s the small form’s fault she is inactive.
She thinks that the small form is outdated, irrelevant, meaningless and she is tormented by it.
She thinks that she must create something more universal than her feelings, which are displayed by the small form.
She thinks the big form is relevant.
She can’t create in the big form, because she can't focus on something for a long time and that is tormenting her.
She is emotionally incapable of asking for real help from 1.
Each time 1 presents a solution to her problem, she gets angry and attacks him, both physically and verbally (rejection).
She seems that she wants to get away from 1, but when he implies that he is leaving, she can’t take it.
When 1 offers her his full attention, she rejects his interest, she rejects him and she leaves.
Psychic Structure:
Her mother was rejective. Furthermore, because she did not know what she wanted in life when she realized that she was pregnant to 2, she felt trapped in a life where she didn’t know where it was leading her.
Her mother felt anger/hatred towards her husband (2’s father), because she felt that he was caging her in a disgusting life and as a result she would withdraw into meaninglessness.
2’s mother also felt anger/hatred towards 2 as an embryo, because 2 was the child of the person who caged her and thus caged her even more into her disgusting life.
2 had fear of death as an embryo and as a newborn baby.
2’s father felt anger/hatred towards his wife (2’s mother), because he felt she was caging him into something lesser than his value, whose value was megalomaniacal and not real.
Her father was indifferent for the needs of his wife during her pregnancy, for the pregnancy itself and for 2 as an embryo, as a newborn baby and as a child.
The pain of 2’s trauma is due to the rejection she got from her parents as an embryo, as a newborn baby and as a child.
She experiences the pain of her trauma with hopelessness and despair.
The dynamic of the relationship between her mother and her father is that of a person who is caged and a person who cages. The person who is caged feels anger/hatred towards the person who caged him. There is a tendency to get free from this dynamic, which always fails. Because both persons continue to stay in the relationship, there is disgust and despair. The roles are always played both ways.
Emotional Pattern:
She has a great need for acceptance, because acceptance is connected to survival.
Acceptance comes out in a megalomaniacal way, which always leads to rejection.
Most of the times, she does not have the capability to succeed and experiences that someone cages her talent, which in reality does not exist.
The megalomaniacal elements with which she tries to achieve acceptance, are chaos and paranoia.
She is possessed by fear of death every time her megalomaniacal plan is rejected, i.e. she regresses back to the rejection of her mother and father.
She feels caged, when in fact she is not, or she is driven unconsciously to situations where she gets trapped.
She feels anger/hatred towards the person who cages her, whether he is real or not.
In the present she gets angry each time she feels caged, whether it is real or not.
In the present she gets angry and rejects (criticizes) anyone who shows real interest in her, because he hurts her by showing her the thing she never got from her parents.
Theatrological Elaboration: Filippos Tlemon
Psychotheatrological Analysis: Filippos Tlemon/Panos Mavitzis
Psychotheatrological Analysis: Filippos Tlemon/Panos Mavitzis