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    »Gorgeous monstrosity«: Derrida's deconstruction as an alternative postmodernist tool in analysing Alasdair Gray's »Poor Things«
    (Wydawnictwa AGH, 2009) Małecka, Joanna
    The article is a postmodern interpretation of Alasdair Gray's acclaimed novel <i>The Poor Things</i>. The main motifs in the novel are reread in the light of the theories of Jacąues Derrida and Ludwig Wittgenstein. At the centre of the analysis stands the intertextual and deconstructive reading of the role of the main heroinę, Bella Baxter. As the novel's »gorgeous monstrosity«, Bella is a prototype construct embedded in the linguis-tic naturę of reality. In Gray's postmodern vision, Bella embodies the main concerns of the novel: the blurring of the boundaries between concepts (such as centre/periphery, memory/forgetfulness, life/death), and the continuous questioning of their definitions.
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    Psychoanalityczna interpretacja architektonicznej formy Muzeum Żydowskiego w Berlinie. Realne, symboliczne i wyobrażeniowe w przestrzeni miasta
    (Wydawnictwa AGH, 2012) Moćko, Wojciech
    The aim of the article is the psychoanalytical interpretation of Jewish Museum building in Berlin - the example of deconstructivism in architecture, as well the urban space of Berlin and the history of Germany and the Berlin Jews as manifested in the space of the city. Starting with the notion of anamorphosis, the works by Jacques Derrida and Peter Eisenman and using Daniel Liebenskind's building of the Jewish Museum as an example, the author of the article shows the connection between deconstructivism and the urban space of Berlin. The emphasizes the importance of empty spaces, or spaces devoid of something, for both the city space of Berlin, and the Museum's architecture, where the empty space is the space devoid of the Berlin absentees - the Jews. The description refers to formal features of deconstructivist architecture and the features of the museum building while the interpretation is rooted in Lacanian psychoanalysis and his three orders: the Real, the Symbolic and the Imaginary, as well as in his concept of the mirror stage in the development of the human psyche.