Sindbad’s Adventures, or Leśmian’s Phantasms? Cover Image

Przygody Sindbada, czyli fantazmaty Leśmiana?
Sindbad’s Adventures, or Leśmian’s Phantasms?

Author(s): Iwona Misiak
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku
Keywords: fairy tale; autobiograph;y psychoanalysis; poststructuralism; feminism

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the psychoanalytical interpretation of Leśmian’s fairy tale The adventures of Sindbad Sailor by Bogusław Grodzki. Following Freud’s and Bettelheim’s concepts, it claims that Sindbad’s psychosexual development and his relations with the princesses reflect Leśmian’s phantasms – the poet’s erotic/sexual desires. In Grodzki’s work fiction seems to be an autobiographical tale and verbal psychotherapy. Misiak, on the other hand, presents the sex/gender categories and introduces the distinction between the autobiography and autofiction as well as certain poststructural and feminist categories.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 12
  • Page Range: 123-135
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Polish