This article analyzes the role of pain and torture in the construction and destruction of subjectivity by way of a comparison of the depictions of torture in the theatre of Sarah Kane and Elaine’s Scarry’s highly influential The Body in Pain: On the Making and Unmaking of the World. The essay uses Kane in conjunction with the phenomenology of Emmanuel Levinas, as well as relevant work on the history and sociology of privacy and private speech. Its purpose is to develop an account of what is here called pain’s bi-directional character, or its capacity to represent both the presence and the absence of the victim’s subjectivity, possibly at the same time. Using Kane to expand upon Scarry’s account of the role of subjectivity in torture, we can see how the logic of torture structures numerous relationships in Kane’s work, including Blasted, Phaedra’s Love, Cleansed, and Crave. The essay establishes Kane as not only a major playwright, but also a subtle and perceptive theorist of suffering for whom the question of intersubjectivity is a major site of dramatic struggle. Jeremy Colangelo is the author of Diaphanous Bodies: Ability, Disability, and Modernist Irish Literature (University of Michigan Press, 2021) and the editor of Joyce Writing Disability (University Press of Florida, 2022). His work has appeared in such journals as Modern Fiction Studies, Journal of Modern Literature, Textual Practice, and Modern Drama. He currently teaches at King’s University College, University of Western Ontario.

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私人诚实：莎拉·凯恩 (Sarah Kane) 戏剧中的酷刑与内在

本文通过比较莎拉·凯恩和伊莱恩·斯卡里影响深远的戏剧中对酷刑的描写，分析了痛苦和酷刑在主体性建构和破坏中的作用。痛苦中的身体：关于世界的形成和毁灭。这篇文章结合了凯恩和伊曼纽尔·列维纳斯的现象学，以及关于隐私和私人言论的历史和社会学的相关著作。它的目的是对这里所谓的疼痛的双向特征进行说明，或者它可能同时代表受害者主观性的存在和不存在的能力。使用凯恩扩展斯卡里对主观性在酷刑中的作用的解释，我们可以看到酷刑的逻辑如何在凯恩的作品中构建众多关系，包括爆破,斐德拉之爱,洁净的， 和渴望。这篇文章确立了凯恩不仅是一位主要的剧作家，而且还是一位微妙而敏锐的苦难理论家，对他来说，主体间性问题是戏剧斗争的主要场所。杰里米·科朗吉洛 (Jeremy Colangelo) 是透明的身体：能力、残疾和现代主义爱尔兰文学（密歇根大学出版社，2021 年）和乔伊斯写作障碍（佛罗里达大学出版社，2022 年）。他的作品出现在诸如现代小说研究,现代文学杂志,课文练习， 和现代剧。目前任教于西安大略大学国王学院。