‘I want to talk’. The psychotherapeutic functions of Justyna Bargielska and Anna Starobiniec’s narrations on perinatal loss

Authors

  • Irina Adelgejm dr hab., Instytut Słowianoznawstwa, Rosyjska Akademia Nauk, Moskwa, Rosja.

Keywords:

narration, self-psychology, traumatic experience, perinatal loss

Abstract

The article discusses a unique experience of death such as a perinatal loss described in Obsoletki by Justyna Bargielska and Spójrz na niego by Anna Starobiniec. The author of the article analyses the ways in which narration aims at assimilating the traumatic experience (in Bargielska’s writing: ‘cataloguing’ the pain of other mothers, ‘a split screen’, adapting external observer’s point of view, dividing the trauma into separate elements, lack of logic; in Starobiniec’s writing: externalization of the loss by the experience of mourning, ‘recreating’ lost relations; in both authors’ creativity: connecting life and death, placing loss in the story of life, conventional endings).

Author Biography

Irina Adelgejm, dr hab., Instytut Słowianoznawstwa, Rosyjska Akademia Nauk, Moskwa, Rosja.

Autorka kilku monografii (Польская проза межвоенного двадцатилетия: между Западом и Россией. Феномен психологического языка, 2000; Поэтика „промежутка”: молодая польская проза после 1989 года, 2005; Травма вре­мени, терапия повествования. О польской прозе 1990–2000-х гг. – w druku) i wielu artykułów na temat literatury polskiej głównie XX i XXI wieku. Jej podstawowe naukowe zainteresowania dotyczą powiązania języka literatury i mechanizmów psychologicznych, problemów pamięci prywatnej, historycznej i kulturowej, zagadnień przekładu i recepcji. Tłumaczka dzieł takich twórców, jak: G. Herling­‑Grudziński, T. Różewicz, M. Tulli, P. Huelle, A. Stasiuk, O. Tokarczuk, E. Kuryluk, M. Bieńczyk, H. Krall, J. Korczak, J. Hen, M. Wilk, W. Tochman i in.

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Published

2020-09-23

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Adelgejm, I. (2020). ‘I want to talk’. The psychotherapeutic functions of Justyna Bargielska and Anna Starobiniec’s narrations on perinatal loss. Postscriptum Polonistyczne, 20(2), 103–118. Retrieved from https://trrest.vot.pl/ojsus/index.php/PPol/article/view/9892

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Vol. 20 No. 2 (2017): Oblicza kobiecości

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Treatises

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