Prospero and Kurz in the Mirror of Memory Cover Image

Prospero i kurz w lustrze pamięci. Przeniesieniowe pozycje sprawcy, ofiary i świadka w polskim dyskursie publicznym drugiej dekady XXI wieku
Prospero and Kurz in the Mirror of Memory

Author(s): Joanna Tokarska-Bakir
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: KSIĘGARNIA AKADEMICKA Sp. z o.o.
Keywords: transference in historical studies and in public memory; symbolic language of the Polish footbal teams banners and slogans; victims, perpetrators and bystanders

Summary/Abstract: In this article – based on selected examples and with no certainty that they havebeen aptly chosen – I would like to point out and make a preliminary analysisof certain positions in Polish public discourse which currently display strikingelements of transference in the sense of Dominick LaCapra’s meaning of theterm. They reverberate with reflections of Polish imagined community’s experiencesfrom the Occupation period. In this description, I shall rely on the classiccategor isation introduced by Raul Hilberg, successively discussing the identificationof subjects with the positions of perpetrator, victim and witness.

  • Issue Year: 12/2015
  • Issue No: 35
  • Page Range: 7-25
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Polish