Psychoanaliza przejęzyczenia w Anhellim, czyli o studium Stefana Baleya Psychoanaliza jednej pomyłki Słowackiego

In spite of some opinions that have prevailed in Poland so far, the influence of Freud’s and his successors’ theories on the Polish literary criticism of the interwar period was not only diverse, but also often related to very original and innovatory interpretations of both classical and modern literature. In this article, a study of Stefan Baley, originating from the interwar period, is recollected and analyzed. In an inventive way, the author of this article transplants the methodology contained in Freud’s book Psychopathology of everyday life to the ground of the Polish literary research. On that basis he examines a slip of the tongue in Słowacki’s Anhelli. Thanks to the applied methodology, the author of this paper uncovers some deeper, hidden meanings of the interpreted piece of work. He reveals the truth that is unavailable to those researchers who use methods of interpretations different from psychoanalysis.