Den skräckelfyllda kroppen : feminism och hysteri i Carina Rydbergs "Nattens amnesti" : det somatiska samhället och dess litteratur

2014
journal article
article
dc.abstract.enSociological analysis reveals an increasing role of the body in both private and political spheres of contemporary Western society, hereinafter, the somatic society. The phenomenon called ‘skräckellitteratur’ is a result and reaction towards the somatic society. Skräckellitteratur was a characteristic trend in the Swedish literature of the 90’s, where elements of fear and disgust presented the body as a basic medium of violence. In this paper the phenomenon of skräckellitteratur is discussed on the basis of the analysis of the protagonist’s hysterical behavior in Carina Rydberg’s novel, Nattens amnesti (1994). According to Elaine Showalter’s theory, hysterization of a person is the result of cultural violence which degrades the person to the body level and enables relieving the violence only in the somatic manner. This paper reconstructs the hysteria process, its source and the way a hysterical woman endeavors to suppress progressive somatization. The analysis of historical discourse in the novel Nattens amnesti emphasizes its significant relations with the feminist reinterpretation of the hysteria theory. This relation is noticed among others in the source of the hysteria which comes as a result of sexual abuse in early childhood and progressive sexual activity in adulthood. The hysterical woman with her non-culturally formed body becomes a rebellious patriarchal daughter who jeopardizes not only herself but also the whole system which degraded her to the body level. The hysterical symptoms presented in Rydberg’s prose confirm Hélène Cixous’ and Elaine Showalter’s views, who, contrary to psychiatry and psychoanalyses of the death of hysteria, claim hysteria to be a still existing, though modified, phenomenon.pl
dc.affiliationWydział Filologicznypl
dc.contributor.authorDziedzic, Andrzej - 152507 pl
dc.date.accessioned2019-02-25T13:19:29Z
dc.date.available2019-02-25T13:19:29Z
dc.date.issued2014pl
dc.date.openaccess24
dc.description.accesstimepo opublikowaniu
dc.description.additionalNa publikacji autor podpisany Dominik Dziedzic.pl
dc.description.number1pl
dc.description.physical45-59pl
dc.description.publication1,2pl
dc.description.versionostateczna wersja wydawcy
dc.description.volume9pl
dc.identifier.doi10.4467/20843933ST.14.004.3051pl
dc.identifier.eissn2084-3933pl
dc.identifier.issn1897-3035pl
dc.identifier.projectROD UJ / OPpl
dc.identifier.urihttps://ruj.uj.edu.pl/xmlui/handle/item/69182
dc.languageswepl
dc.language.containerpolpl
dc.rightsDozwolony użytek utworów chronionych*
dc.rights.licenceInna otwarta licencja
dc.rights.urihttp://ruj.uj.edu.pl/4dspace/License/copyright/licencja_copyright.pdf*
dc.share.typeinne
dc.subject.enhysteriapl
dc.subject.enviolencepl
dc.subject.enbodypl
dc.subject.enCarina Rydbergpl
dc.subject.ensomatizationpl
dc.subtypeArticlepl
dc.titleDen skräckelfyllda kroppen : feminism och hysteri i Carina Rydbergs "Nattens amnesti" : det somatiska samhället och dess litteraturpl
dc.title.alternativeDisgust and fear of the body : feminism and hysteria in Carina Rydberg’s "Nattens amnesti" : det somatiska samhället och dess litteraturpl
dc.title.journalStudia Litteraria Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensispl
dc.typeJournalArticlepl
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dc.abstract.enpl
Sociological analysis reveals an increasing role of the body in both private and political spheres of contemporary Western society, hereinafter, the somatic society. The phenomenon called ‘skräckellitteratur’ is a result and reaction towards the somatic society. Skräckellitteratur was a characteristic trend in the Swedish literature of the 90’s, where elements of fear and disgust presented the body as a basic medium of violence. In this paper the phenomenon of skräckellitteratur is discussed on the basis of the analysis of the protagonist’s hysterical behavior in Carina Rydberg’s novel, Nattens amnesti (1994). According to Elaine Showalter’s theory, hysterization of a person is the result of cultural violence which degrades the person to the body level and enables relieving the violence only in the somatic manner. This paper reconstructs the hysteria process, its source and the way a hysterical woman endeavors to suppress progressive somatization. The analysis of historical discourse in the novel Nattens amnesti emphasizes its significant relations with the feminist reinterpretation of the hysteria theory. This relation is noticed among others in the source of the hysteria which comes as a result of sexual abuse in early childhood and progressive sexual activity in adulthood. The hysterical woman with her non-culturally formed body becomes a rebellious patriarchal daughter who jeopardizes not only herself but also the whole system which degraded her to the body level. The hysterical symptoms presented in Rydberg’s prose confirm Hélène Cixous’ and Elaine Showalter’s views, who, contrary to psychiatry and psychoanalyses of the death of hysteria, claim hysteria to be a still existing, though modified, phenomenon.
dc.affiliationpl
Wydział Filologiczny
dc.contributor.authorpl
Dziedzic, Andrzej - 152507
dc.date.accessioned
2019-02-25T13:19:29Z
dc.date.available
2019-02-25T13:19:29Z
dc.date.issuedpl
2014
dc.date.openaccess
24
dc.description.accesstime
po opublikowaniu
dc.description.additionalpl
Na publikacji autor podpisany Dominik Dziedzic.
dc.description.numberpl
1
dc.description.physicalpl
45-59
dc.description.publicationpl
1,2
dc.description.version
ostateczna wersja wydawcy
dc.description.volumepl
9
dc.identifier.doipl
10.4467/20843933ST.14.004.3051
dc.identifier.eissnpl
2084-3933
dc.identifier.issnpl
1897-3035
dc.identifier.projectpl
ROD UJ / OP
dc.identifier.uri
https://ruj.uj.edu.pl/xmlui/handle/item/69182
dc.languagepl
swe
dc.language.containerpl
pol
dc.rights*
Dozwolony użytek utworów chronionych
dc.rights.licence
Inna otwarta licencja
dc.rights.uri*
http://ruj.uj.edu.pl/4dspace/License/copyright/licencja_copyright.pdf
dc.share.type
inne
dc.subject.enpl
hysteria
dc.subject.enpl
violence
dc.subject.enpl
body
dc.subject.enpl
Carina Rydberg
dc.subject.enpl
somatization
dc.subtypepl
Article
dc.titlepl
Den skräckelfyllda kroppen : feminism och hysteri i Carina Rydbergs "Nattens amnesti" : det somatiska samhället och dess litteratur
dc.title.alternativepl
Disgust and fear of the body : feminism and hysteria in Carina Rydberg’s "Nattens amnesti" : det somatiska samhället och dess litteratur
dc.title.journalpl
Studia Litteraria Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis
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JournalArticle
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Publication
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