Let me begin with a personal recollection from a recent, but somehow already distant past. For many years now, together with Ewa Modzelewska-Kossowska of the Polish Psychoanalytic Society, I have been conducting a seminar on “Austrian Literature and Psychoanalysis” in the hospitable premises of the Austrian Cultural Forum in Warsaw. During these years, together with a group of ardent and insightful readers, we have dug through a pile of books by Franz KafkaKafka, Franz, Robert MusilMusil, Robert, Thomas BernhardBernhard, Thomas, Ingeborg BachmannBachmann, Ingeborg, Elfriede Jelinek, and many others. Once a month, we have been trying to confront a given book with this or that psychoanalytic idea which, however, has never been treated dogmatically and has never been used as the key to a literary world. Rather, we used it as a point of departure to provoke the book so that it addresses us with an unexpected question, as a useful simplification soon to be revised or rejected—perhaps utterly but for some telling and instructive reason.

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The Left-Handed Self: Losing and Regaining the World in Peter Handke and Laura Freudenthaler

  • Adam Lipszyc

摘要

Let me begin with a personal recollection from a recent, but somehow already distant past. For many years now, together with Ewa Modzelewska-Kossowska of the Polish Psychoanalytic Society, I have been conducting a seminar on “Austrian Literature and Psychoanalysis” in the hospitable premises of the Austrian Cultural Forum in Warsaw. During these years, together with a group of ardent and insightful readers, we have dug through a pile of books by Franz KafkaKafka, Franz, Robert MusilMusil, Robert, Thomas BernhardBernhard, Thomas, Ingeborg BachmannBachmann, Ingeborg, Elfriede Jelinek, and many others. Once a month, we have been trying to confront a given book with this or that psychoanalytic idea which, however, has never been treated dogmatically and has never been used as the key to a literary world. Rather, we used it as a point of departure to provoke the book so that it addresses us with an unexpected question, as a useful simplification soon to be revised or rejected—perhaps utterly but for some telling and instructive reason.