Konceptualizacje JA i DRUGIEGO w filozoficznym i poetyckim dyskursie miłosnym
Conceptualizations of ``me'' and ``the other'' in philosophical and poetic love discourse

Summary/Abstract: The author analyzes the conceptualizations of love, as well as of ME and THE OTHER in love discourse, on the basis of the philosophy of Emmanuel Lévinas and the poetry of Halina Poświatowska. As the most important schemas organizing the understanding of love, its subject and its object, she identifies the schemas of “bond” and “part-and-whole”: both types of discourse utilize them, though in different ways. Lévinas claims that a love is possible in which each side preserves his or her identity and does not unite with the other. Poświatowska constructs the images of physical closeness of lovers, their “merger” and eventual disappearance of one in the other. In the philosophical discourse, love is merely an object of intellectual reflection, while in Poświatowska’s poetry it is also ME’s emotion. The authors of both categories of text openly define their respective points of view as male (Lévinas) and female (Poświatowska).

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