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This article is the first attempt at the psychoanalytical interpretation of Flytrap Factory by Andrzej Bart. The author refers to such issues as Holocaust, postmodernism and culture of narcissism. Marta Tomczok compares the novel written by Bart in 2008 with the documentary Radegast by Borys Lankosz and Bart’s screenplay. In Tomczok’s interpretation judgement over Chaim Mordechai Rumkowski is not the main theme of the Bart’s novel. The researcher supposes that the main topic could be the contemporary story of the writer Andrew working on the novel entitled Flytrap Factory and screenplay of the film similar to Radegast. The author bases on the theory of narcissism of J. Lacan and the concept of postmodernist history of H. White.
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The theoretical part of this article draws on terminology defined by theorists such as J. C. Kauffman,N. Luhmannn, Ch. Lasch, E. Beck-Gernsheim, U. Beck, A. Giddens, L. Jamienson, E. Illouz,and Z. Bauman. The research on partnership relations in the narcissistic culture are published in thebook by the article author: Ściupider-Młodkowska M., Love in the time of Me. A socio-pedagogical study,Poznań 2018. The fight for an approval and innovatory ideas for a happy partnership life (which hasbeen observed in my research on biographies of relationships) does not entirely come from “free”choices. Therefore, we may conclude that to some extent the culture of narcissism has an impact ona quality of relationships and relations between people in general. In the wider context, the articletries to provide an answer to the question of transgression of common responsibility for a success ora failure in relations between people. Interpersonal contacts are increasingly controlled or created bythe market as well as the world of technicization. As a result, their character is changed into shorttermrelations where only an Ego of individuals is promoted and general narcissism culture is spread.Pedagogues are concerned about building identity of young people mostly in social media accordingto the phrase Selfie ergo sum. Pedagogy cannot ignore the influence of media on the social developmentof teenagers (which includes their sexual development, too). To prevent the acquisition of negativepatterns, an educational program needs to be proposed which will teach a critical approach to socialmedia and help build sustained interpersonal relations.
Prace Kulturoznawcze
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2019
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vol. 23
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issue 1
115-123
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In this paper I ponder on the dominance of the “narcistic culture,” or a culture in which narcissism disseminates as a basic behaviour type, with its characteristic values (inspired by Ruth Bene­dict’s idea). I describe the “narcissism culture” typologically: I put it in an opposition towards the “culture of common good” and characterise it as a diffusive net of traits (inspired by Alfred L. Kroe­ber’s idea), which actualises itself in concrete local conditions. “Narcissism culture” is based upon individualism, ambition, and care for keeping up the image, while distancing itself from the “culture of common good,” i.e. community oriented, honour, caring for keeping up the image and reputation. The conditions for the narcissism to spread were possible because or were created by industrialisa­tion, with its six traits indicated by Alvin Toffler: standardisation, specialisation, synchronisation, concentration, maximalisation, and centralisation, whereas due to the development of capitalism the narcistic behaviours were reinforced and gained social importance.
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This article discusses a relatively new phenomenon in literature: a writer’s diary published in his or her lifetime, presenting it is an important manifestation of the culture of narcissism. Referring to the works of Christopher Lasch, Magdalena Szpunar, Carl Cederström and André Spicer, the author focuses on one of its variants – a diary written ‘for show’. Analysing excerpts from Rozmemuary by Wojciech Kuczok, Wieloryby i ćmy by Szczepan Twardoch and Rzeczy utracone by Łukasz Orbitowski, she observes that the narcissism of these productions has a lot in common with the phenomenon of information bubble, or so-called water ball, perceived here as a metaphor for a culture that carries a number of negative properties, such as an illusion of easy communication while the reader-author relationship is disrupted, self-promotion of the author as a public figure instead of focusing on ethical, ideological, social or political observations, etc. Tempted by the promise of resolving common problems, the audience ends up following the pastime of the writer who lives in his or her own bubble (‘water ball’) filled with – rather vain – desires. The article points out some narcissistic gestures of the authors of diaries written ‘for show’, offering a literary criticism of this newly emerged cultural phenomenon – as of yet not fully studied by critics of fiction.
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