Żywoty świętych Piotra Skargi – biografie transgresyjne. Prolegomena do przyszłych badań

Abstract

The article discusses the phenomenon of transgressive personality based on the example of Lives of the Saints by Piotr Skarga. Each of the heroes of this work has a transgressive biography, that is, through his life they makes an act of transforming himself and leaving (transgressio) beyond the order of profanity and the transition to the order of the sacred. The notion of transgressive psychology is a tool for describing this phenomenon. The work is an introduction to further research.

Keywords

• sanctity
• transgression
• individuality