"Kärlekens hemlighet är större än…dödens" En föreställningsanalys av Ann Jäderlunds drama Salome

Abstract

This artide contains an analysis of the performance Salome, the poet Ann Jäderlund's first play from 1995. A psychoanalytical approach inspired mainly hy Lacan and Reeder as well as the discussion of how gender is construed, socially as well as culturally, is nsed to illustrate how this text treats the concept of femininity, which inside the phallocentric order means a position as other. Salome is seen as a woman searching for a way to articulate a female subject without having to position herself as the other, the object. Her struggle to be accepted as an equal subject is envisaged in her encounter with three men, as well in the description of her relationship with her mother and Herode. When this is denied her and they instead project their own narcicistic desires onto her and then reject her, she kills them.