Published: 2020-09-23

‘I want to talk’. The psychotherapeutic functions of Justyna Bargielska and Anna Starobiniec’s narrations on perinatal loss

Irina Adelgejm

Abstract

The article discusses a unique experience of death such as a perinatal loss described in Obsoletki by Justyna Bargielska and Spójrz na niego by Anna Starobiniec. The author of the article analyses the ways in which narration aims at assimilating the traumatic experience (in Bargielska’s writing: ‘cataloguing’ the pain of other mothers, ‘a split screen’, adapting external observer’s point of view, dividing the trauma into separate elements, lack of logic; in Starobiniec’s writing: externalization of the loss by the experience of mourning, ‘recreating’ lost relations; in both authors’ creativity: connecting life and death, placing loss in the story of life, conventional endings).

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Adelgejm, I. (2020). ‘I want to talk’. The psychotherapeutic functions of Justyna Bargielska and Anna Starobiniec’s narrations on perinatal loss. Postscriptum Polonistyczne, 20(2), 103–118. Retrieved from https://journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/PPol/article/view/9892

Vol. 20 No. 2 (2017)
Published: 2020-10-26


ISSN: 1898-1593
eISSN: 2353-9844
Ikona DOI 10.31261/PS_P

Publisher
Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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