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Przeciw mitom - o mrocznych stronach macierzyństwa w powieści Slavenki Drakulić - "Optužena"
2017
Starting with Jean Jacob Rousseau’s, Sigmund Freud’s and feminists’ of the second wave views on matemity, the paper shows Slavenka Drakulić’s ideas presented in her novel Optužena. The Croatian author rejects the myth of matemal love by writing about yiolence against the child and pathology in the mother-daughter relationship. The problem of transgenerational transmission of trauma is shown in an interesting literary way and it is really innovatory.
O materinstvu na drugi način - prećutane strane materinstva u romanu "Optužena" Slavenke Drakulić
2017
Slavenka Drakulić is a Croatian journalist and writer, known as a feminist who writes about the problems in women’s lives. In the novel Optužena (2012), she demonstrates in an interesting, artistic way the less known questions of motherhood, often ignored and tabooed in social discourse. It is known that starting from Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s ideas about maternity, it has been idealized and used in order to constrain women within the patriarchal system, by identifying them primarily as mothers. The concepts of Sigmund Freud, who believed maternity and maternal love to be natural and appropriate for every “standard” woman, contributed to turning into taboos some pathologies connected with mat…