Zatrzymać sztuczne raje. O temporalizacji doświadczenia psychodelicznego w pismach Witkacego i Huxleya

• Authors: Monika Sikorska

Title variants

EN

To keep artificial paradise. On the temporalization of the psychedelic experience in the writings of Witkacy and Huxley

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The article deals with the problem of verbalizing drug experience and the resulting problem of determining passage of time. I study Aldous Huxley’s and Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz’s trip-reports written during psychedelic experience. Both writers have trouble with defining passage of time, and although they took the same drug, their psychedelic experience took completely different courses. In Huxley’s subjective perception time seems to “freeze”, while Witkacy’s psychedelic experience seems to be quick and dynamic.

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Gdański. Wydział Filologiczny
• Journal: Jednak Książki. Gdańskie Czasopismo Humanistyczne
• Year: 2021
• Issue: 12
• Pages: 72-86

Dates

published

2021-09-08

Contributors

author

Monika Sikorska

• Uniwersytet Warszawski