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Ewa Lipska’s Problem with Loneliness: From Generality to Detail; or, The Deduction of the Self

Summary/Abstract: Brejnak examines the logic of loneliness in three poems by Ewa Lipska which address the problem of “loneliness” in their titles. Lipska’s use of the term “loneliness,” Brejnak argues, denotes the subject’s striving to overcome zdezindywidualizowanej ogólności and attain authentic and individual existence. This path of metaphysical deduction is performed through an entry into the sphere of writing and a transgression of this sphere in a gesture of self-annihilation. Drawing on Nietzsche’s notion of das Selbst and Jan Patočka’s concept of the experience of freedom, Brejnak concludes that Lipska’s “loneliness” is a project of self-deconstructive “loneliness” – of a subject “unsure of itself,” perpetually constructing and destroying its own identity-forming self.

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