Zapiski z dna duszy. O "Requiem aeternam..." Stanisława Przybyszewskiego

• Authors: Sebastian Węgrzynowski

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Notes from the bottom of the soul. On Stanisław Przybyszewski’s Requiem aeternam...

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

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The aim of the article is to reveal the conceptual order of Stanisław Przybyszewski’s Requiem aeternam... The order is made up of two main narratives. I have termed them a story of failed self-therapy and a story of conflict with the mother. The story of failed self-therapy, exposing the Oedipal inclinations of the narrator-protagonist, includes a fantasy about tainted conception, a fantasy about second conception, a fantasy about incest and a fantasy about androgynous synthesis. The story of conflict with the mother, showing the protagonist’s reaction to the mother’s opposition, is made up of a fantasy about rejection of the mother, a fantasy about her killing and a fantasy about her apotheosis. The work ends with a suicide scene, which provides a logical conclusion to both stories.

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wroclawskiego
• Journal: Prace Literackie
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 54
• Pages: 19 - 24

Contributors

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Sebastian Węgrzynowski

• Uniwersytet Wrocławski