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Bram Stoker’s Dracula is the most famous example of a successful symbiosis between Gothicism and balkanism. With this symbiosis, Irish author refreshes and popularizes the vampire myth and enriches it with the myth of  Transylvania as a homeland of vampirism. Stoker tries to make the image of Transylvania as authentic as possible, but at the same time, he mystifies some facts. He creates Transylvania in accordance with balkanistic stereotype as a beautiful, but backward land. European culture is mingled there with the oriental culture. Count Dracula’s vampirism is a horrible effect of this cultural hybridization. According to psychoanalytic interpretation, the castle o fa vampire symbolizes the unconsciousness of Westerners, and the vampire is their double. Dracula embodies their repressed ideas related to the desire of absolute power which enables to satisfy the instincts freely. The balkanistic context of psychoanalytic interpretation of Dracula’s castle allows the extension of this interpretation to the entire Transylvania, which in Stoker’s novel is a metonymy of the Balkans and Eastern Europe. This region of Europe was in the 19th century regarded in the West as the boundary between Europe and Asia, and it serves as a locus horridus, that is to say, a bad place which is a reservoir of culturally forbidden desires that Westerners repress by attributing them to the Eastern European culture.
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The article deals with the Balkans image in post-Yugoslavian prose. The inhabitants of the peninsula try to respond to the opinions and perceptions that are related to them, created by the Western European Balkanistic discourse. Negative ideas have become the cause of complexes, a sense of injustice and resentment. That is why the inhabitants of the Balkans are looking for a way to escape from the Balkan identity. Scientists, writers and publicists strongly oppose the invidious, one-sided image of the Balkans. They are trying to prove that it is not quite in consonance with reality, and that the process of shaping the image of the Balkans was influenced not only by the Balkan nations, but also by the West.
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Artykuł dotyczy obrazu Bałkanów w prozie postjugosławiańskiej. Mieszkańcy półwyspu próbują ustosunkować się wobec odnoszących się do nich opinii oraz wyobrażeń, wykreowanych przez zachodnioeuropejski dyskurs bałkanistyczny. Negatywne wyobrażenia stają się powodem kompleksów, poczucia niesprawiedliwości i żalu. Mieszkańcy Bałkanów szukają więc sposobu na ucieczkę od bałkańskiej tożsamości. Naukowcy, pisarze i publicyści głośno i zdecydowanie przeciwstawiają się krzywdzącemu, jednostronnemu wizerunkowi Bałkanów. Próbują udowodnić, że nie jest on do końca zgodny z rzeczywistością, zaś w procesie jego kształtowania udział miały nie tylko narody bałkańskie, ale także Zachód.
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