“I am writing up in the air because I want to come back quickly, I want to undo it” Barbara Klicka’s „Zdrój” as a Novel on Trauma Cover Image

„Piszę w powietrzu, bo chcę szybko wrócić, zrobić, żeby nie było”. „Zdrój” Barbary Klickiej jako powieść o traumie
“I am writing up in the air because I want to come back quickly, I want to undo it” Barbara Klicka’s „Zdrój” as a Novel on Trauma

Author(s): Mateusz Kaliński
Subject(s): Studies of Literature, Educational Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Psychoanalysis, Health and medicine and law, Family and social welfare, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: trauma; psychoanalysis; memory; childhood; illness

Summary/Abstract: This article aims to provide an interpretation of Barbara Klicka’s novel Zdrój [Spring]. It is analysed through Sigmund Freud’s concept of trauma and Anna Freud’s The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defence. The purpose of this article is to examine the impact of childhood trauma on the adult subject’s psychic structure and to explore lingual strategies used to sustain her defence against structural violence.

  • Issue Year: 5/2022
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 1-21
  • Page Count: 21
  • Language: Polish