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Erros Schulza
Schulz’s Erros

Author(s): Filip Szałasek
Subject(s): Anthropology, Psychology, Polish Literature, Interwar Period (1920 - 1939), Philology, Theory of Literature
Published by: Fundacja Terytoria Książki
Keywords: Bruno Schulz; schulz studies; literary theory; masochism;

Summary/Abstract: Usually, Schulz’s masochism has been considered as an obvious component of his lifeand work. Such a diagnosis, triggering a series of conventional associations, ignoreswhatever the writer might have actually experienced in connection with sex, and concentrateson the deficit of masculinity defined in a conservative way, which transformspotential transgression into its opposite – an algorithm. Moreover, it identifies complexetiology of masochism with docility in contacts with women. But what if Schulz wasjust playing a game of masochism or even more: what if he used it as a disguise to conceala much more serious disorder of which he was not fully aware?

  • Issue Year: 7/2016
  • Issue No: 7
  • Page Range: 66-98
  • Page Count: 33
  • Language: Polish