– Kto ty jesteś? – Mały Hans. Rymkiewicza Freudem
Look Who’s Talking – Little Hans: Reading Rymkiewicz with Freud

Summary/Abstract: This article proposes a psychoanalytical reading of the Polish political subject in selected works by Jarosław Marek Rymkiewicz, namely his “Polish tetralogy” of four books of creative non-fiction (Hanging, Kinderszenen, Samuel Zborowski and Reytan: The Fall of Poland) as well as the historical essay The Great Prince and the poem To Jarosław Kaczyński. Matuszek argues that the key to understanding the Polish political subject is Freud’s case study of Little Hans’s phobia. In his Freudian reading of Rymkiewicz, Matuszek highlights issues such as sexual difference, antagonism, as well as the materiality of language and the death drive. This reading leads him to conclude that the condition of Polish subjectivity in Rymkiewicz’s works is best described through the category of perversion.

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