The Crime of Count Neville is primarily a story of a complex father–daughter relationship, culminating in the attempted murder of the count’s daughter by her own father. Infanticide is inevitable for Sérieuse, which parallels the mythological story of Iphigenia. But Nothomb also develops on an extra-diegetic level, as the meta-narrative of the genesis of the Freudian Family Romance or the Novel itself. Between the concepts of “bastard” and “foundling,” this novel contains many autobiographical elements and borrows from other literary works, most noticeably from Oscar Wilde’s collection Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime.
The thesis of the article claims that destabilization of patriarchal social order is strictly connected with the act of patricide. The Father – the symbol of patriarchal culture – is deprived of power by this act. The consequence of patricide is constituting the new vision of unisex world in which femininity and masculinity are not determined by the binary system of gender. The article references to the methodological tools proposed by psychoanalysis and gender studies. Moreover, its aim is also to develop of an intellectual strategy which can destabilize social mechanisms of constructing emphasized femininity and privileging masculinity in the society.
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Teza artykułu brzmi: Zdestabilizowanie męskocentrycznego porządku społecznego uwarunkowane jest dokonaniem symbolicznego aktu ojcobójstwa, który pozbawiłby Ojca – symbol kultury patriarchalnej – władzy. Konsekwencją dokonania aktu ojcobójstwa jest ukonstytuowanie się wizji świata typu unisex, w którym męskość i kobiecość nie będą dookreślane poprzez binarny systemu płciowy. Artykuł odwołuje się do tradycji psychoanalitycznej a także do narzędzi metodologicznych wypracowanych przez gender studies. Artykuł ma na celu opracowanie intelektualnej strategii, która przyczyniłaby się do destabilizacji społecznych mechanizmów konstruujących kobiecość podporządkowaną męskości i męskość uprzywilejowaną w społeczeństwie.
The study comprises an introduction, main body, and a conclusion. In the introductory part presented is the issue of Code of Chief and Correctional Penalties introduced in Autonomous Polish Kingdom by the decree of 1 January, 1847, in place of the current Polish Penal Law of 1818. The author discusses the principles underlying the nature of crime, punishment, responsibility, and a system of penalties which is to act as a deterrent. The article presents the state of research, sources and literature of the subject, as well as the aim of the study. The article comprises three parts. They deal with offences against life, matrimony and parental authority, caretaker's authority, and legal guardianship. The discussed offences against life include: patricide, killing of a family member, killing of a pregnant woman, infanticide, abortion, abandonment of a child, and suicide. The part that deals with offences against matrimony contains three spheres of offences and misdemeanours, often closely linked with the civil norms of marital law: punishable violation of essential conditions of entering into marriage, punishable violation of legal impediments to marriage, criminal responsibility of parents, guardians and priests for the violation of legal impediments to marriage, and the abuse of marital rights and obligations, as well as sexual offences against family. The last part of the article deals with offences against parental authority, caretaker's authority and guardianship, listing different types of authority abuse, offences committed by children against their parents, and abuse of authority by caretakers and guardians. The conclusion contains a succinct appraisal and an analysis of the issues in focus.
The study comprises an introduction, main body, and a conclusion. In the introductory part presented is the issue of Code of Chief and Correctional Penalties introduced in Autonomous Polish Kingdom by the decree of 1 January, 1847, in place of the current Polish Penal Law of 1818. The author discusses the principles underlying the nature of crime, punishment, responsibility, and a system of penalties which is to act as a deterrent. The article presents the state of research, sources and literature of the subject, as well as the aim of the study. The article comprises three parts. They deal with offences against life, matrimony and parental authority, caretaker's authority, and legal guardianship. The discussed offences against life include: patricide, killing of a family member, killing of a pregnant woman, infanticide, abortion, abandonment of a child, and suicide. The part that deals with offences against matrimony contains three spheres of offences and misdemeanours, often closely linked with the civil norms of marital law: punishable violation of essential conditions of entering into marriage, punishable violation of legal impediments to marriage, criminal responsibility of parents, guardians and priests for the violation of legal impediments to marriage, and the abuse of marital rights and obligations, as well as sexual offences against family. The last part of the article deals with offences against parental authority, caretaker's authority and guardianship, listing different types of authority abuse, offences committed by children against their parents, and abuse of authority by caretakers and guardians. The conclusion contains a succinct appraisal and an analysis of the issues in focus.
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