Creative Art and Psychopathology: Jerzy Krzysztoń’s Insanity

This article is an attempt at reopening the discussion about the art of psychotic artists. It revisits the problem of schizophrenic art creation, which tends to be neglected or marginalized, by focusing on Jerzy Krzysztoń’s Obłęd (Insanity). The novel, treated as an example of schizophrenic narrative, a subset of trauma narratives, is examined here in two aspects, its language and the structure of its fi ctional world. This is an interdisciplinary, comparative study which makes use of the analytical tools of psychology, psycholinguistics and psychiatry