Metafizyka integracji. Elizy z Branickich Krasińskiej poszukiwanie tożsamości
The Metaphysics of Integration. Eliza Krasińska, née Branicka, in Search of Identity

Summary/Abstract: This article attempts at looking at letters of the wife of the great Polish romantic poet Zygmunt Krasiński as a story of overcoming inner disintegration, a noticeable decomposition of the psyche. The spiritual dilemma was defeated by Eliza’s describing on her letter sheets the everyday life and events, political and social, going on around her, as coupled with detailed analysing of her own emotional states. This peculiar self-psychoanalysis was supported by romanticist providentialism, belief in divine and satanic interventions in the vicissitudes of the world, Manichean struggle of Good and Evil, contemplation of art and nature, afterthought on man, death and the ‘last things’, as well as self-creation.

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