Prekursorzy Rymkiewicza

The article describes how the historical essays of Jarosław Marek Rymkiewicz depend on the works of his important predecessors. This dependency is analysed in accordance with Harold Bloom’s “anxiety of influence” theory. I bring up well-known sources, such as the works of Maria Janion, less-remembered sources, such as the essays of Jerzy Łojek, as well as sources that may initially come as a surprise, such as the philosophy and biography of Michel Foucault. In interpreting these connections I develop Bloom’s psychoanalytical inspirations, but I also problematise them by juxtaposing them with the “schizoanalysis” proposed by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari in Anti-Oedipus.