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The Self Industry: Therapy and Fiction

The Self Industry: Therapy and Fiction

red. Jarosław Szurman, Agnieszka Woźniakowska, Krzysztof Kowalczyk-Twarowski

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Publikacja dotyczy problemów powstałych na styku literatury i psychologii, w szczególności terapeutycznej funkcji tekstów, zarówno w odniesieniu do ich autorów, jaki i do czytelników. Autorzy poszczególnych artykułów poddają analizie różnorodne teksty kultury powstałe w dziewiętnastym i w dwudziestym wieku, pokazując, że nie tylko psychologia dostarcza narzędzi do odczytania (niekiedy na nowo) tekstów literackich, ale i literatura pomaga w zrozumieniu problemów z dziedziny psychologii.

Contents

 

Introduction / 9

 

 

Part One

Narcissists and Neurotics. Writing of Dissent

 

Niclas Johansson

Narcissus and Narcissism in Early Psychoanalysis: The Intertextual Dialogue between Theme and Concept / 15

 

Maria Korusiewicz

The Ajase Complex and Freudian Psychoanalysis: Some Notes on the Cultural Consequences of “Foundational Myths” / 27

 

Tadeusz Lewandowski

A Critique of the Discourse of the Self in Michael Sandel’s Liberalism and the Limits of Justice / 40

 

Stephen Dewsbury

The Self in Temporary Autonomous Zones / 53

 

Benjamin Betka

De-Pressed Masses: Affective Dissonance in Melancholia, Disease, and the Screened (American?) World / 62

 

Tomasz Gnat

Narcissus’s Narcosis: Formation of Self, Disintegration of Self: A Question of Interactive Entertainment and Player-Character Identity Correlation / 75

 

 

Part Two

Herstories: The Self and Women’s Literature

 

Karen FerreiraMeyers

Doubling or Dividing the Self: Examples from Autofictional Writing as Influenced by Psychoanalysis / 89

 

Anna Bugajska

Descent into Hell. Pauline Anstruther’s Long Way To Her Self / 102

 

Grażyna Zygadło

“I change myself, I change the world.” Storytelling in Women’s Art / 111

 

Sławomir Kuźnicki

Writing to Preserve the Self: A Woman’s Resistant Position in the Patriarchal Dystopia of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale / 123

 

Karolina Błeszyńska

In the Search of Self: Female Identity and Subjectivity in Doris Lessing’s “To Room Nineteen” / 137

 

 

Part Three

Therapy through Writing?

 

Łukasz Giezek

A Therapeutic Journal: Peter Ackroyd’s The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde / 151

 

Tomasz Markiewka

T(h)au for Torture? Writing on Trial in Teodor Parnicki’s Novel The Finger of Threat / 161

 

Eliene Mąka-Poulain

“In Violence and Epiphany”: Seamus Heaney’s North / 178

 

Wojciech Drąg

Writing Cure? Narrating Loss in Kazuo Ishiguro’s An Artist of the Floating World and The Remains of the Day / 190

 

Anna Cholewa-Purgał

Neo-Nihilism and the Self Industry of Logotherapy / 205

 

Małgorzata Nitka

“So many pages a day.” Writing, Compulsion, and Modernity / 228

 

Agata Wilczek

Unnameable Loss: Melancholy and Postmodern Writing / 240

 

 

Part Four

Searching the Self

 

Aleksandra Lubczyńska

Illness – Therapy – Catharsis. Gender Roles, Camp, and Postmodern Identities in The Rocky Horror Picture Show / 265

 

Maria Perzyńska

Therapy or Obsession? Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s Problems with His Self / 276

 

Jarosław Giza

Trapped in a Vicious Circle of the Tragic Triad… Miltonian Satan and Conradian Kurtz’s Process of Unearthing Authentic Identity / 285

 

Stephen Harris

Questioning the Cultural Industry of the Self: Fiction, Selfhood and Individualism in Patrick White’s The Vivisector / 296

 

Sławomir Konkol

I Am Not Me. The (Re)construction of the Self in Graham Swift’s Ever After / 319

 

Alicja Bemben, Ewa Mazur-Wyganowska

Romantic Legacy in Non-Romantic Times. Two Different-Similar Approaches to Searching for Self-Identity / 334

 

Monika Gorzelak

Frame of Mind. Self Industry in Performance / 344

 

Wojciech Szymański

Venice–Iceland: A Journey to Utopia / 353

  • Title: The Self Industry: Therapy and Fiction
  • Author: red. Jarosław Szurman, Agnieszka Woźniakowska, Krzysztof Kowalczyk-Twarowski
  • ISBN: 978-8-3801-2425-7, 9788380124257
  • Date of issue: 2016-03-11
  • Format: Ebook
  • Item ID: e_1p7t
  • Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego