Sierpniowe inicjacje. Obrazy kobiet w Sierpniu Brunona Schulza
Journal Title: Schulz/Forum - Year 2013, Vol 3, Issue 3
Abstract
Even though Bruno Schulz repeatedly criticized psychoanalysis, one may discover in his fiction many traces of Freud’s theory. The writer from Drogobych not only proposed his own version of the Oedipal drama, but also explored perversions and fetishism as well as various forms of compensation within a family based on radically different personalities of the father and mother. Dybel comes up with a psychoanalytic reading of “August,” the opening story of Cinnamon Shops. He approaches it not just as a starting point of Schulz’s fiction, deeply rooted in the writer’s correspondence with Debora Vogel and others, but as its climax, at least as far as the libidinal power of nature embodied by women is concerned. Schulz presents in “August” five portraits of womanhood – from still innocent Lucia to monstrously fertile Agata – which constitute the female Superego and Id, and even go beyond this division. By contrast, Dybel’s psychoanalytic interpretation includes also weak or absent men from whom the protagonist, whether he likes it or not, must learn about life and complete his rite of passage.
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Paweł Dybel
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