%0 Journal Article
%T Die doppelte Triade: Wotan - Loge - Erda/Wagner - Freud - Butler
%A Simone Fohr-Manthey
%J Act : Zeitschrift f¨¹r Musik & Performance
%D 2012
%I Universit?t Bayreuth
%X This essay offers a reading of Richard Wagner¡¯s Rhinegold as a work in which important tendencies of modernity are prefigured in the opera¡¯s narratological and vocal dispositions. These tendencies are, first of all, the destabilization of an intact identity and, second, the Freudian-based concept of the three aspects of the psyche, the id, the ego, and the super-ego, which govern the individual self. A third focus is on Wagner¡¯s ideas of an androgynous system beyond the dualism of maleness/femaleness, as described by Judith Butler. With these premises, an analysis of the opera¡¯s dramatic function and vocal parts for the characters Wotan, Loge, and Erda shows whether Richard Wagner, as an author-composer of the late nineteenth century, can be regarded as a protomodernist and thus a pacesetter for modernity.
%K Wagner
%K Rhinegold
%K identity
%K Gender
%U http://opus.ub.uni-bayreuth.de/volltexte/2012/996/pdf/ACT2012_03_Fohr_Manthey.pdf