By contrast to the contemporary dominant schools in psychology, Ignace Meyerson’s outlook is situated at the level of culture and brings a historical approach to psychology, thus offering an alternative prism for understanding ...

The paper explores a case study of Stanisław Lem’s short story The Truth, initially published in 1964 (and not translated into English until 2021), which is among his lesser-known works and represents a notable gap in ...

Niniejsza dysertacja, włączając się w inicjatywę ożywienia dialogu „o Leśmianie i wokół Leśmiana", traktuje artystę jako fenomen wyobrażeniowy. Jej celem jest próba określenia typu wyobraźni (czy jak chce Jerzy Ficowski - ...

This paper examines how Mouthwashing (2024), an indie horror game, constructs a space where horror aesthetics and agency-related mechanics converge, allowing players to engage with sensitive social issues such as sexual ...

Bruce F. Kawin defines horror by its recurring motifs and its primary goal: to frighten and unsettle the audience (4). Beyond its entertainment value, horror functions within a dynamic semiotic space, where spatial structures ...

The article presents examples of the use of old Slavic beliefs by authors of contemporary Polish horror, including stories included in five anthologies published by Horror Masakra in 2016– 2023, in the unrelated Żertwa. ...

Does the quest to reduce architectures negative impact on the climate have to involve “designing for discomfort”? In this text, I consider whether a turn toward pleasurable experiences in the realm of everyday life can ...

The paper addresses how happiness, traditionally a subjective and philosophical concept, has increasingly become an objective of constitutional frameworks. Through historical, philosophical, and legal analyses, it explores ...

The article adopts a perspective in which relations between values are examined on a basis of cultural products and practices. The object of analysis is the gender dispute, which is treated as an axiotic space, which is a ...

A horror story, a genre whose primary role is to instill fear in its audience, uses a variety of methods to achieve its goal. One of these is the skillful building of a mood using the acoustic plane. The following article ...