TY - JOUR
TI - Autopsychography by Elemér Tábory. From Literary Interpretation of Dreams to Psychomedical Diagnosis of Modernity
AU - Sobolewska, Agnieszka
TI - Autopsychography by Elemér Tábory. From Literary Interpretation of Dreams to Psychomedical Diagnosis of Modernity
AB - 
	This article aims to analyze the first modernist novel by the Hungarian writer Mihály Babits entitled Caliph the Stork (The Nightmare). The author points to the multidirectional character of psychomedical knowledge dissemination in the Hungarian modernist literature at the beginning of the 20th century. A close reading of Babits’ first novel in the light of psychoanalytic theories (especially Sigmund Freud’s and Otto Gross’s) and psychiatric theories of the split personality (developed primarily in France, then in the United States and Great Britain) allows the author to shed new light on Hungarian modernist literature and its relationship with the modern psychomedical discourses. In the article, Babits’ novel is interpreted as a space for creative appropriation and reinterpretation of the nineteenth and early-twentieth-century discourses on the human psyche.

	* Artykuł powstał w ramach grantu przyznanego mi przez MNiSW, nr DI2017 004647 na lata 2018–2022, a także stypendium badawczego Józef Tischner Award and Junior Fellowship w Instytucie Nauk o Człowieku (Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen) w Wiedniu (2022/2023).
VL - 2022
IS - Issue 4 (54) 2022: Psychoanaliza i literatura. Metamorfozy dogmatu
PY - 2023
SN - 1897-1962
C1 - 2084-395X
SP - 17
EP - 35
DO - 10.4467/2084395XWI.22.025.17578
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/wieloglos/article/autopsychografia-elemera-taboryego-od-literackiej-interpretacji-snow-po-psychomedyczna-diagnoze-nowoczesnosci
KW - psychoanalysis
KW - literary modernism
KW - split personality
KW - psychomedical discourses
KW - Mihály Babits