ABSTRACT
As a student at Krakow’s Jagellonian University, Mikolaj Kopernigg began to use the Latin version of his name, Nicolaus Copernicus. In his Introductory Lectures to Psycho-analysis Sigmund Freud notes that the naive self-love of men has had to submit to several major blows at the hands of science. Krakow is a city of two names. The first was when analysts learned from Copernicus that the earth was not the centre of the universe but only a tiny fragment of a cosmic system of unimaginable proportions. The second blow was delivered by Darwin who showed that humans occupy no privileged place in the dawn of creation, but are rather part of the animal kingdom. On the East-bank of the Wavel river it is called Cracovia, on the West-bank of the same river it is called Casimyrs. After the sixteenth century, the Christians lived mainly in Cracovia, the Jews in Casimyrs.
