Jakości architektoniczno-urbanistyczne a proces formułowania tożsamości. Na przykładzie "Paryża" Marii Pawlikowskiej-Jasnorzewskiej

Abstract

Identity shaping assumes various types of references, discloses the character of connections which join “subject” with something different, with itself, something that “subject” turns to, in order to concretize the way of understanding itself and others. This process does not proceed peaceably, it is interfered by individual impulses as well as unexpected, unforeseeable internal and external occurrences. They penetrate the existence of the subject and demand an explanation, the attitude towards them, and frequently reformulate the whole foregoing individual being. One of the situations, which is of particular importance to the process of self-understanding, is the situation of denial, understood as a loss of relation based on closeness, intimacy. In the pre-war works of Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska loneliness of the subject, resulting from being deserted by a beloved, was very often an object of imagery. Nevertheless, this situation is clearly concretized by a poem called Paris, set in poetic collection of the same title. The picture of the capital of France, pointed out topographic details emphasize an intensive immersion in the experience of loneliness, helplessness, self-concentration. Subjectively characterized perception of the metropolis introduces kaleidoscopic variability, prevalence of the motif of the night, balancing on the edge of visibility, which by emphasizing subjective impression, accents the reaction against the refusal of closeness and, through painful experience, searching for reduction of relations with the outside world.