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Journal

2012 | 10 | 1(18) | 113-123

Article title

Locked-in syndrome.Widmo paraliżu i potwór w potrzasku

Authors

Title variants

EN
LOCKED-IN SYNDROME. THE PHANTOM OF PARALYSIS AND THE MONSTER OF TRAP

Languages of publication

PL

Abstracts

EN
The article is an attempt to compare the cultural existence of a paralyzed body, captured by various discourses, with the stories that include individual experience of ill people. Beside the anti-war cinema, the article discusses Jacques Derrida’s, Tony Judt’s and Jean-Dominique Bauby’s texts. Following Susan Sontag, the aim of interpretation is to show paralysis as a metaphor – a very important one in our culture – which assembles essential fears of contemporary societies: the phantom of immobilization – inertia, which becomes a disorder, and a damage of a medium, a break of communication.

Contributors

author
  • Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicach, Wydział Filologiczny, pl. Sejmu Śląskiego 1, 40-032 Katowice

References

  • - J.-D.Bauby, Skafander i motyl, przeł. K. Rutkowski, Gdańsk 2008.
  • - J. Derrida, Obrzeznania (Circonfession), [w:] G. Bennington, J. Derrida, Jacques Derri-da, przeł. V. Szydłowska-Hmissi, Warszawa 2009.
  • - A. W. Frank, The wounded storyteller. Body, Illness, and Ethic, Chicago 1997.
  • - T. Judt, Noc, przeł. S. Kowalski, „Gazeta Wyborcza” z dn. 08.01.2010. http://wybor-cza.pl/1,76842,7434855,Noc.html. Data dostępu: 10.08.2011.
  • - S. Sontag, Choroba jako metafora, przeł. J. Anders, [w:] Osoby. Transgresje 3, red. M. Ja-nion, S. Rosiek, Gdańsk 1984.
  • - P. Zawojski, Wokół McLuhana – po latach, „Zeszyty telewizyjne” 2005, nr 7.
  • - S. Žižek, Przekleństwo fantazji, przeł. A. Chmielewski, Wrocław 2001.

Document Type

Publication order reference

Identifiers

YADDA identifier

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