„...Częcie”, Sacrum w życiu codziennym
„...Reusement!”, Le Sacré dans la vie quotidienne

Summary/Abstract: „...Reusement!” - The first chapter of the first part (Biffures) of La Rčgle de jeu, the extensive autobiography by Michel Leiris on stages in the emergence and development of individual consciousness. The presented chapter recalls the moment of the discovery of speech and the sources of repression which the author regards as one of the prime motor forces of the consolidation of the personality. Next to Andriey Bieliy’s equally autobiographic novel Kotik Letayev (1917), Leiris’ book is the most advanced attempt at penetrating the memory of early childhood by applying the means of artistic prose. Le Sacré dans la vie quotidienne - The text of a lecture which Michel Leiris gave at Collčge de Sociologie in Paris – an attempted analysis of his own childhood inspired by Freud’s The Psychopathology of Everyday Life. „What is my meaning of sacrum?” asked Leiris. He discovered the sacrum in language lapses, in certain objects, which he assigned special significance, and in a particular valorisation of the space of the family home... Sacrum in Daily Life tries to build a bridge between ethnography and autobiography, a specific, highly personal „anthropology of daily life”...

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