Jątrzenie Janion
Janion’s Festering

Summary/Abstract: The article provides a new reading of Maria Janion’s Niesamowita Słowiańszczyzna(Uncanny Slavdom). Adopting a psychoanalytic interpretation of the eponymous term“uncanny,” the author demonstrates how it underwent an articulative distortion, thusenabling the inclusion of Janion’s project into the current of modern psychoanalyticreflection, which stems from Jacques Lacan’s theory. Niesamowita Słowiańszczyznademonstrates a new perspective on delineating boundaries of subjectivity, especiallycompared to popular interpretations of Freud’s uncanny. The article emphasizes Lacan’sjouissance, which in Janion’s book assumes the form of festering open to both subjectiveexpression – neglected in literary studies – and introduces questions regarding existentialconsequences of its linguistic nature.

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