%0 Journal Article
%T Oral Systems in Kosmos by Witold Gombrowicz
%A Kaliściak, Tomasz
%J Wielogłos
%V 2022
%R 10.4467/2084395XWI.22.026.17579
%N Issue 4 (54) 2022: Psychoanaliza i literatura. Metamorfozy dogmatu
%P 37-60
%K mouth, orality, family, nonheteronormativity, masculinity, Witold Gombrowicz, Jean Genet
%@ 1897-1962
%D 2023
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/wieloglos/article/uklady-oralne-w-kosmosie-witolda-gombrowicza
%X 
	The article attempts to describe Witold Gombrowicz’s oral system in Kosmos from the perspective of cultural interpretations of psychoanalysis (Jean-Paul Sartre, Guy Hocquenghem, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick) and schizoanalysis (Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari). Understood as a specific network of connections that organizes the map of Witold’s unconscious mind, this system focuses on the mouth, tongue/language, speaking, eating, etc. The fantasy of spitting in the mouth plays a significant role here, read in the context of a similar motif from Jean Genet’s novel Miracle de la rose. The novel interpretation revolves around an attempt to escape from the power of the Oedipus complex, presented as a network of familial heteronormative relationships and connections. The failure of heterosexuality is treated as an act of queer resistance.