Udręki edukacji (Metafizyka dwugłowego cielęcia Witkacego)
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2010
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Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM w Poznaniu
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Torments of Education (“Metaphysics of a Two-Headed Calf” by S.I. Witkiewicz)
Abstract
Identity crisis, one of the crucial problems tackled by Witkacy in his dramas, is linked first of all
with the tradition of modernism by critics. The author of the article suggests a change in the viewpoint,
and basing on the analysis of Metaphysics of a Two-Headed Calf presents that problem in
the perspective of contemporary discourse concerning identity. The problems that Witkacy’s
characters had with their own existence are in consonance not only with today’s quite common
conviction that individuals can experiment with their own feeling of identity relatively freely, but
also with the concepts of individual ego, that function within social sciences. The tools developed
by social sciences allow to have a different perception on the relation between the processoriented/
process-driven nature of identity (self-creation of the ‘I’, game, mystification) and the
conviction that its borders are delineated by the cultural pressure and social discipline. In Metaphysics
of particular importance are the relations with parents, with the family – representing
society – as well as constructions of double-gangers (Doppelgänger) that reveal the subject as the
Other, or deprive the subject of its ‘individual-ness’ undermine her/his individual (subjective)
status. The diagnoses of Witkacy are quite close to the contemporary ways of conceptualization of
the ‘I’, which – as Lacanian psychoanalysis, Foucault’s constructionism – negating the subjective
power to cause, do not confine themselves to unmasking the pressure of institutionalized forms of
life, and reveal their activity even at micro-level.
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Przestrzenie teorii t. 14, 2010, str. 159-171
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978-83-232-2210-1