THE TRAGIC ORIGINS AND COUNTERTRAGIC EVOLUTION OF PSYCHODRAMA

Abstract

Psychodrama had many roots to grow by and from: The stirring undercurrents of Bergsonian thought and early existentialism at the turn of the century, the turbulent, Marx-marked years immediately following World War I, J. L. Moreno's personal make-up, his dream of being God the Brother rather than God the Father, his embryonic social action as pioneer sociometrist, his psychiatric training, and his theatrical experience, to name but the biographically most discernible tributaries.