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Aktorzy spektaklu obsceniczności
Actors in the Spectacle of Obscenity

Author(s): Marek Zaleski
Subject(s): Political history, Political psychology, History of Communism
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: power; obscenity; writers; intellectuals;

Summary/Abstract: The obscene aspects of power are the guilty pleasures of the insecure “Schongeister.” They are the reason for artists and intellectuals to join the ruling camp – a reason perhaps more frequent and an incentive stronger than fear and opportunism. This underestimated background of the motivations in the spectacle of power – both under communism and today, when power comes from a democratic mandate – is analyzed here using the observations offered by contemporary psychoanalytic thought.

  • Issue Year: 19/2022
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 196-204
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Polish