![]() I have examined various writings and statements, short stories and novels to try to give an answer. Freud often liked to mention a phrase taken from Shakespeare’s Hamlet that expresses all his doubts about the possibilities of science alone: There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy (Hamlet, Act I, Scene V). The question somehow reverses the terms of a proposition that has always been known to psychoanalysts since Freud and Jung: writers, artists, know how to search out the secrets of the world better than anyone else, and they know more about the mind than psychoanalysts. One may wonder whether Olga Tokarczuk’s work contains any trace of her studies and her previous profession as a psychoanalyst, that is whether psychology and psychoanalysis contributed to her literary accomplishment. A crucial phrase for his existence which he had never noticed, and which he feverishly seeks to confirm in several editions of the philosopher’s texts. With these words, in the novel House of Day, House of Night, a character with the solemn name of Ergo Sum comments on a phrase of Plato in the eighth book of the Republic: “He who has tasted human entrails, must become a wolf”. ![]() “The subconscious loves to play tricks” (Tokarczuk, 1998, p. ![]()
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