Jak trafiłem na terapię. Z życia w obozie z kości słoniowej
How I came to therapy. Life in the camp made of ivory

Summary/Abstract: The author, using autoethnography, shows several images of academic life that break the community and are irritating. He tries to show the atmosphere that hinders the development of critical thought and socially committed attitude. At the same time, by reference to the concept of the camp, present in the works of Agamben and the state of exception as well as a sovereign from Schmitt writing, the author introduces the metaphor of “the camp made of ivory”, as a specific form of empowerment of employees and real forms of power that are hidden either in a formal academic democracy or community demands or “peer systems.” “The camp is the space that opens up when the state of exception starts to become the rule” (Agamben, 2008, p. 230). The functioning of the university as the camp made of ivory effectively blocks the appearance of divine wrath, which could fill the campers. Emphasizing the destructive trends in the academy grew out of concern for the unfulfilled promise of friendship, and the advocate for the critical, involved function of science and the university.

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