The Body of
the Poem – corpus (alter) ego of the poet – artifactualization of text. Psyche of lyrical persona of
Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki Cover Image

Ciało wiersza – corpus (alter) ego poety – artefaktualizacja tekstu. Psyche lirycznej persony Eugeniusza Tkaczyszyna-Dyckiego
The Body of the Poem – corpus (alter) ego of the poet – artifactualization of text. Psyche of lyrical persona of Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki

Author(s): Przemysław Koniuszy
Subject(s): Polish Literature, Sociology of Literature
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki; psychoanalysis and poetry; somatopoetics; corpus; schizophrenia in literature; somatext; Jean-Luc Nancy; Sigmund Freud;

Summary/Abstract: The article is an analysis of Ciało wiersza [The Body of the Poem], a poetic volume by EugeniuszTkaczyszyn-Dycki, in the light of psychoanalysis, somatopoetics and philosophy of the body. Theauthor juxtaposes the category of the “body of the poem” with Jean-Luc Nancy’s Corpus. In this con-text he presents Ciało wiersza as a collection of texts describing the situation of a subject embodyingthe content of its psyche, transgressing and being on the verge of mental entropy or schizophrenia.Close to Freud’s cathartic method, Tkaczyszyn-Dycki treats the poem as a reservoir of psychogenicmaterial and a projection instrument. The somatext, as embodied unconsciousness, analyzed throughthe prism of basic Freudian tools (defense mechanisms, regressive shifts), appears as a resultant ofthe dialectic of repression and the imperative of commemoration, which channels libidinal energythrough imaginative displacements. Referring to the recurring leitmotifs of Tkaczyszyn-Dycki’s im-agination in Ciało wiersza, the author traces how the poet reflects in the poetic text the workings ofthe psychic apparatus and the “multiple names” of schizophrenia.

  • Issue Year: 2023
  • Issue No: 40
  • Page Range: 87-110
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Polish
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