This paper offers a summary of a doctoral research that investigated the production of meaning in autobiographical performance in dramatherapy, and how it can be described as emerging from the relational and embodied encounter between performers and witnessing spectators. The study responded to a need in autobiographical performance research to analyse and understand the processes and mechanisms of connection between the staged experience of the performer and the lived experience of the witnessing spectator, and how these create possibilities of new meanings for both. The findings of the research reveal complex relational dynamics within the shared space of autobiographical performance and their impact on the meaning making process. The research suggests that the production of meaning in autobiographical performance is located at the intersection between aesthetic, embodied and intersubjective processes. The findings show a reciprocal relationship between the role of the performer and the witnessing spectator, and the way in which they co-author and complete their respective experiences. As part of that dynamic, the research unveils the significance of embodied and pre-reflective processes in the production of meaning. Finally, the research shows how aesthetic processes in autobiographical performances regulate the transformational potential of the encounter between performers and spectators.

本文提供了一个博士研究的摘要，该博士研究了戏剧疗法中自传体表演中意义的产生，以及如何将其描述为表演者与目击者之间的亲密接触。这项研究满足了自传体表演研究的需要，即分析和理解表演者的上演经历与见证者的现场经历之间的联系过程和机制，以及这些过程和机制如何为两者创造新的意义。研究结果揭示了自传表现共享空间内的复杂关系动力学及其对意义形成过程的影响。研究表明，自传体表演中意义的产生位于美学，体现和主体间过程的交汇处。调查结果表明，表演者和见证人的角色以及他们共同创作和完成各自经历的方式之间存在相互关系。作为这种动力的一部分，这项研究揭示了在意义产生过程中体现和预反思过程的重要性。最后，研究表明自传表演中的审美过程如何调节表演者与观众之间相遇的转化潜力。以及他们共同撰写和完成各自经历的方式。作为这种动力的一部分，这项研究揭示了在意义产生中体现和预反思过程的重要性。最后，研究表明自传表演中的审美过程如何调节表演者与观众之间相遇的转化潜力。以及他们共同撰写和完成各自经历的方式。作为这种动力的一部分，这项研究揭示了在意义产生过程中体现和预反思过程的重要性。最后，研究表明自传表演中的审美过程如何调节表演者和观众之间相遇的转化潜力。