„Sen wymówiony przez czarodziejskie tony” — onirologia erotyczna w liryce Kazimierza Tetmajera

Abstract

The article treats about the issue of erotic oneirology in Kazimierz Tetmajer’s lyric poetry. Eroticdreams indicate transgressive dimension of the oneiric space and reveal most intimate desires of Tetmajer’sdreaming lyrical ego. “Transcending to the other”, the desire to commune spiritually and quasi-somaticallywith the idealised, ethereal mistress is the most important feature of the discussed dream visions. Thepoet of The Young Poland poet assigns a very important role to the erotic oneirology. In one of the poems,the lyrical ego highlights that its vision was “pronounced by the magic tones” of imagination and depictsthe most beautiful vision of his soul. The article discusses the construction of the dreamed figures, whoseontic existence is not entirely defined. They represent hybrid creations — on the one hand, the desirefor their concretisation is clearly defined, on the other hand, their affiliation to the sphere of imaginativeprojection is emphasised (“ethereal-somatic hybrids”). The article also discusses the theme of metaphysicalapproach to physicality and the transgressive dimension of dreaming. Tetmajer’s homo transgressivusspasmodically looks for a way beyond the “corset” phenomenal reality which creates a chain of restrictionsand absurd prohibitions. To dream, according to Tetmajer, is to fulfill a desire to be intimate with thelonged-for mistress, to lose oneself in the love ecstasy of body and soul.