Andrzej Stasiuk’s Forms and Metaphors. Description of Borderline States and Attempts to Get out of Fears Cover Image

Formy i metafory Andrzeja Stasiuka. Opis stanów pogranicznych oraz prób wydobycia się z lęków
Andrzej Stasiuk’s Forms and Metaphors. Description of Borderline States and Attempts to Get out of Fears

Author(s): Maciej Duda
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Psychology, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: Andrzej Stasiuk; the unconscious; psychodynamic reading; psychotherapy

Summary/Abstract: The text is an attempt at a psychotherapeutic reading of fiction written by Andrzej Stasiuk. The method assumes the application of psychodynamic theory and practice in the process of literary reading. The structure of the text corresponds to the story of the patient (case study). The article contains a presentation of the biographies of the characters and narrators of Stasiuk’s prose. The analysis focuses on their fears and attempts to overcome these fears. The synthesis includes metaphors and the sequence of scenes, the arrangement of the text. Reading of Stasiuk’s prose is based on the theory of unconscious expression, which proves that the sequences of our utterances reveal lines of unconscious thinking.

  • Issue Year: 2022
  • Issue No: 54
  • Page Range: 75-94
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: Polish