Kępińskiego narracja o człowieku

ZBIGNIEW KLOCH University of Warsaw ORCID: 0000-0002-7832-0368 KĘPIŃSKI’S NARRATION ON A MAN The article attempts to insight into the books by an eminent psychiatrist Antoni Kępiński from a communicative and stylistic perspective that has been disregarded to this date. It also is a reconstruction of a man’s world image and mental illness in Kępiński’s work viewed as an effect of disorder in information exchange between the subject and external world. In his description of an illness, Kępiński took advantage of medical terminology, though also employed metaphors and comparisons allowing to better comprehend the mental state of the ill person, the two latter of which undoubtedly added to the popularity of his work among those readers who were not professionally related to psychiatry and psychology. The style of Kępiński’s books was motivated by the strive to write about the illness and the ill in such a mode so as not to reduce the illness to one category from among the valid medical classifications, which, in turn, restores the ill’s subjectivity.