Intymność i jej naruszenie. O doświadczeniu maladycznym we współczesnej poezji kobiet
Intimacy and its violation: on the experience of illness in contemporary women’s poetry

Summary/Abstract: This article discusses selected aspects of the problem of self-perception by a sick individual, specific to the poetry of Polish women of the last few decades. The aim of the analysis is to show that the body is central to the illness experience and that a new type of intimacy appears in connec-tion with its ailment. This is a „clinical intimacy”, the specificity of which is defined by a confron-tation with suffering, the proliferation of the feeling of isolation, the intensity of emotions related to making the body public, its discovery and exposure in a hospital setting. The issue of „gender ex-propriation” in a marginal situation is also important, as is the scar, wound, physical violation of the body boundary, read as the „punctum” of the patient’s body. The interpretation emphasises the in-dividualization of artistic representations of the aforementioned aspects of „clinical intimacy”. The anthropological research perspective adopted in the sketch allows for the diagnosis of the subject matter in the context of the process of shaping subjective identity.

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