Linoskoczek nad otchłanią normalnej nienormalności
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2013
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Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM
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A tightrope walker over the abyss of normal abnormality
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This article presents a discussion of a pervert and neurotic pattern of behavior that is displayed by
both a narrator and a novel’s characters. In Ferdydurke one can find ideas which were popular in
medicine and psychoanalysis at that time, i.e. such as that normality is a social construct. We
value what is “normative” in our social milieu for the sake of self-preservation. The common belief
that perversion is a sign of a pathological personality should be revised – perversion is only one of
the many adaptive strategies that are used in the human world. If we accept Freud’s and Lacan’s
belief that every sexual activity that serves a function other than reproduction is a perversion, then
we can say that every language activity that serves a purpose other than communication is a perversion
as well. Ferdydurke proves that we are all polymorphously perverse and neurotic creatures
in our daily lives.
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Przestrzenie Teorii, 2013, nr 20, s. 37-47
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978-83-232-2654-3