Polskie szaleństwo po Marcu. Obłęd Jerzego Krzysztonia
Poland’s Lunacy After March 1968: Jerzy Krzysztoń’s Obłęd [Madness]

Summary/Abstract: Borowicz analyses Jerzy Krzyszoń’s novel Obłęd [Madness], treating it not only as a literary testimony of the experience of psychosis, but also as an expression of the social conflicts that marked Poland after March 1968. The first part of the article is concerned with a psychoanalytic understanding of psychosis and the possibility of its linguistic recording, whereas the second part places the fears and hallucinations described in the novel in their historical context. Obłęd [Madness] can be seen as an unexpected literary reaction to the anti-Semitic campaign of March 1968 which suggests another, more inclusive, understanding of Polish identity.

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