@ARTICLE{Malej_Izabella_The_2019, author={Malej, Izabella}, volume={vol. LXVIII}, number={No 4}, pages={645-659}, journal={Slavia Orientalis}, howpublished={online}, year={2019}, publisher={Komitet Słowianoznawstwa PAN}, abstract={The symbolistic poetry of Alexander Blok is connected with the thinking of both philosophers and psychoanalysts about the world and the man inscribed in it by the phenomenon of “I”. When coming into contact with transcendence, the poet crosses the demarcation line dividing the rational and irrational world, consciousness and unconsciousness. In the first period of creativity, the Russian symbolist nourishes his imagination, infl uenced by the philosophy of Vladimir Soloviev, with longing for the ideal of femininity. The driving force of the Blok’s imagination becomes, understood after Freud, the desire to meet the ideal residing in the oneiric space, and then to unite with it at the dual level (physical and spiritual). From the psychoanalytic perspective, the cycle Verses about the Beautiful Lady is both an attempt to go beyond awareness and search for the sense of a poetic image, its original source in the unconscious, as well as entering into the mirror phase described by J. Lacan. Beautiful Lady plays a role of what the French psychiatrist appoints as an objet petit a: this object is essentially unreachable and that is why it raises a great desire in the lyrical subject. The mechanism of the transition from chaos to unity, though only apparent in Blok’s works, is identical to the psycho-physical experience of the child, observing himself in the mirror.}, type={Artykuły / Articles}, title={The Mirror Effect. Blok – Freud – Lacan}, URL={http://journals.pan.pl/Content/114558/PDF/SO%204-19%206Malej.pdf}, doi={10.24425/slo.2019.131154}, keywords={Alexander Blok, the mirror phase, sophiology ideal, the repression of impulse ideas}, }