Contents

Introduction / 9

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

Herstories: The Self and Women’s Literature

Karen Ferreira‑Meyers

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

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

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