Rozumienie współczesne i dzieje wyrażenia {miłość własna} w polszczyźnie
Modern Understanding and the History of the Polish Expression {miłość własna} (‘Self-Love’)

Summary/Abstract: The paper presents the history of the expression {miłość własna} (‘self-love’) (which became established in Polish between the 17th and the end of the 18th century) and shows the modern understanding of the expression, including in psychology. Two ways of interpreting miłość własna (‘self-love’) have been distinguished as a result of semantic analysis (using linguistic databases gathering examples from the 17th–18th and 20th–21st centuries): (1) ‘self-love1’ – a neutral mental state which includes: ‘sense of self as a separate being, self-acceptance, desire for individual well-being, and a sense of selfworth’; and (2) ‘self-love2’ – negatively evaluated mental state which includes: ‘exaggerated sense of self-worth, selfish desire for one’s own well-being, and desire for recognition by others’. Finally, the paper sets out a reconstruction of self-love metaphorical imaging, as recorded in modern Polish.

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