Masochistic Motives in the Literary and Graphic Art of Bruno Schulz Cover Image

Motywy masochistyczne w prozie i rysunkach Brunona Schulza
Masochistic Motives in the Literary and Graphic Art of Bruno Schulz

Author(s): Henry Węgrocki
Contributor(s): Katarzyna Kaszorek (Translator)
Subject(s): Psychology, Polish Literature, History of Psychology, Psychoanalysis, Interwar Period (1920 - 1939), Source Material
Published by: Fundacja Terytoria Książki
Keywords: Bruno Schulz; schulz studies; literary theory; masochism;

Summary/Abstract: The article by Doctor Henry Joseph Wegrocki was published for the first time inPsychoanalytic Review in 1946. It is a psychiatric analysis of masochistic motives thatare present in the short stories and drawings by Bruno Schulz. In the text, one candiscover a rough pencil sketch of a droshky drawn especially for Wegrocki and an excerptfrom Schulz’s letter, in which he writes explanatory comments upon his creativeness and perversion. The paper presents the Polish translation of the text.

  • Issue Year: 7/2016
  • Issue No: 7
  • Page Range: 197-204
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Polish