Topofrenia – wina – enoengram. Zielona Góra jako miejsce „schowane, zasłonięte”

Abstract

Topophrenia – Guilt – Enoengram. Zielona Góra as a “Hidden, Covered” Place In the contemporary prose of Zielona Góra, which is focused on the experience of the post-war past of the city, the sense of place-consciousness is topophrenic. Topophrenia, a concept introduced by Robert Tally as a notion of affective geography, provides a compelling explanation of feeling of the disorder, anxiety and dis-ease that exist between locals and the post-German town, which turns out to be the “hidden, covered” place. The concept of topophrenia is used to describe the dynamic, recursive interactions between the affected and the place understood as a “guilty city.” The associations revealed in the semantic game illustrate the transposition of “feeling guilty” into “connected with wine” (in Polish the word “winny” has two meanings: “being guilty” and “connected with wine”). Hence, the key figure of the contemporary Zielona Góra prose is the enographic mnemotopos – it transmits precognitive experiences and acts as an enoengram, transferring the “hidden, covered” into symbolic imagination.