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Occupation and the Virus of Slavery: War Themes in Józef Mackiewicz’s Novels
Abstract
According to the eminent writer, physician and psychoanalyst, Géza Csáth (1887–1919), the human psyche is comprised of various complexes. One of them, origin or race complex, can be called a national complex. Seen from this perspective, Józef Mackiewicz’s novels are characterised by, rather, their multinational complex. In the patriotic canon, occupation is an enormous, collective humiliation. Issues related to occupation in a multinational region are complex; for example, the occupation of Vilnius became normality in the time of two successive world wars. Mackiewicz claims the presence of an alien military force does not automatically lead to the enslavement of society, but Sovietisation turns out to be a genuine disaster.
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Mackiewicz, Csáth, occupation, national complex, Sovietization, Polish novelDetails
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