Studia Filologiczne UJK

Summary

The long-lasting influence of Sigmund Freud's work on many fields of science and social life has also left an indelible mark on literature. Psychoanalysis has become a rich source of material (metaphysics of the will, unconscious spiritual life, pathological manifestations of love, semantics of dreams), motifs for literary works, and has revealed previously unknown symbolic connections between the human psyche and mythography. Archetypal contexts of meaning and the thoroughly original associative method of psychoanalytic practice led to the crystallisation of new literary strategies and forms of writing (internal monologue, stream of consciousness, equivalentisation of feelings).