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Introduction
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In“TerapythroughWriting?,”partthreeofthevolume,ŁukaszGiezekdis-
cussesPeterAckroyd)sTeLastTestamentofOscarWilde,ametafictionalnovel
inwhichthecreationofthepastandtheselfbecomesbothpersonalhealingand
alargerprojectofconferringmeaningontherandomnessofexistence.Invok-
ingBarthes,Bakhtin,andJung,TomaszMarkiewkadiscussesthequestionsof
authorshipandself-identityinT(h)auforTorture?WritingonTrialinTeodor
Parnicki)sNovelTeFingerofTreat.”ElieneMąka-Poulainońersareadingof
oneofHeaney)smostimportantcollectionsofpoetryinthearticleentitled“CIn
ViolenceandEpiphany):SeamusHeaney)sNorth.WojciechDrąg)scontribution
focusesonthetherapeuticfunctionofliteraturein“WritingCure?Narrating
theLossinKazuoIshiguro)sAnArtistoftheFloatingWorldandTeRemainsof
theDay.”TearticlewrittenbyAnnaCholewa-Purgałfocussesonlogotherapy,
aschoolofcontemporaryphilosophyandatherapybasedonfindingmeaning
inone)slife,andsetsitagainstcontemporarycultureofneo-nihilism.Małgorzata
Nitka)s“CSomanypagesaday)
.Writing,Compulsion,andModernity”discusses
GeorgeGissing)s“consciousinsincerityofworkmanship”againstthebackground
ofGeorgeM.Beard)sNervousness,ItsCausesandConsequences,astudyofneu-
rasthenia.Inhercontribution,“UnnameableLoss:MelancholyandPostmodern
Writing,”AgataWilczekfollowsPauldeMan,JacquesLacan,JuliaKristeva,and
WalterBenjamininponderingtheconsciousnessoflossasoneoftheprimary
areasoflinguisticexpression.
Tefourthpartisentitled“SearchingtheSelf.”Inthefirstarticle,invoking
JudithButler)scategoryofgenderperformativityandMichelFoucault)sideaof
aesthetizationoflife,AleksandraLubczyńskaanalysesTeRockyHorrorPicture
Showintermsofillnessandtherapyvis-à-visgenderrolesincampaesthetic.
Whatfollowsisthearticleentitled“TerapyorObsession?DanteGabrielRos-
setti)sProblemswithHisSelfwhereMariaPerzyńskaanalysestheautobio-
graphicalaspectofRossetti)spoetryandpainting,especiallytheinfluenceof
hisrelationshipswithLizzieSiddalandJaneMorrisonhiswork.“Trappedin
aViciousCircleoftheTragicTriad…MiltonianSatanandConradianKurtz)s
ProcessofUnearthingAuthenticIdentity”byJarosławGizaaddressestheprob-
lemofensnarementofMilton)sandConrad)sprotagonistsinFrankl)stragictriad
perceivedparadoxicallyasaconstituentoftheprocessofrecoveringgenuine
self.StephenHarris)sarticle“QuestioningtheCulturalIndustryoftheSelf:Fic-
tion,SelfoodandIndividualisminPatrickWhite)sTeVivisector,”showshow
theauthorinquestionexplores,inhisidiosyncraticway,thepossibilitiesand
limitsofindividualselfoodasimaginedagainsttheconstraintsofAustralian
societyandattitudes.SławomirKonkol,inturn,conductsaLacaniananalysisin
“IAmNotMe.Te(Re)constructionoftheSelfinGrahamSwif)sEverAfer.
Tefocusofthenextcontribution,“RomanticLegacyinNon-RomanticTimes.
TwoDińerent-SimilarApproachestoSearchingforSelf-Identity”byAlicja
BembenandEwaMazur-Wyganowska,ishowPatrickKavanaghandRobert