The fall of “the House of Wasiak”. Practice of an ethnopsychoanalytic theory Cover Image

Zagłada „Domu Wasiaków”. Praktyka teorii etnopsychoanalitycznej
The fall of “the House of Wasiak”. Practice of an ethnopsychoanalytic theory

Author(s): Michał Żerkowski
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Psychology, Sociology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: ethnopsychoanalysis; Lacanian psychoanalysis; suburbanization; narrative; the Real

Summary/Abstract: The heretofore undescribed case of a ruined Łódź villa from the thirties of the twentieth century, known as the so-called the House of Wasiak, binding with different images, still operates in the narrative of the residents of the Marysin area, and “the House of Wasiak” itself as a link in the local discourse—an element whose meaning is conditioned by the existence of another powerful signifier—should be regarded as the key to the understanding of the mechanisms shaping the complex picture of local relations. Relations that are standard for the Polish context of social, political and urban changes today being as they are a result of a truly palimpsestic buildup of stories and traumas.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 16
  • Page Range: 135-159
  • Page Count: 25
  • Language: Czech, Polish