The thanatic experience and overcoming thanatic fear in Olga Tokarczuk’s novels “Final Stories” and “Anna In in the Tombs of the World” Cover Image

Doświadczenie tanatyczne i przezwyciężenie trwogi tanatycznej w powieściach Olgi Tokarczuk „Ostatnie historie” i „Anna In w grobowcach świata”
The thanatic experience and overcoming thanatic fear in Olga Tokarczuk’s novels “Final Stories” and “Anna In in the Tombs of the World”

Author(s): Irina Adelgejm
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Foreign languages learning, Polish Literature, Psychology of Self
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: Olga Tokarczuk; thanatic experience; thanatic fear; self-psychotherapy

Summary/Abstract: The author of the paper examines two novels by Olga Tokarczuk – Final Stories and Anna In in the Tombs of the World in terms of self-psychotherapeutic functions of these texts in the process of overcoming the thanatic fear in the contemporary civilisation, characterised by the lack of effective rites of passage. It analyses the link between artistic devices and specific self-psychotherapeutic processes (desensitization, mythodrama) which they serve.

  • Issue Year: 25/2020
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 11-22
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Polish