Niewyrażalne, a jednak wyrażone prawdy żywe romantyzmu. Tajemnica miłości romantycznej
The Inexpressible yet Expressed Living Truths of Romanticism. The Mystery of Romantic Love

Summary/Abstract: This analysis focuses on Romantic love conceived as a particular experience of the young protagonist in literature from the era of Romanticism. The author opposes the interpretation of Romantic love – widely disseminated in studies on the history of literature – as a mere literary convention, stylisation or pose of the Romantic protagonist, i.e. a literary concept devoid of cognitive values. In doing so she demonstrates that while combining the workshop of the researcher dealing with literature and the psychoanalytical workshop it is possible to perceive Romantic love as an expression of certain essential and even precursory psychological discoveries. The author’s analyses discover in experiencing Romantic love distinct reminiscences of the protagonist’s emotional past going back to early childhood and connected with the mother figure; this is a past that in the case of each person is retained in unconscious memory and impacts a whole life despite the fact that it usually vanishes from conscious memory.

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