Oscar-winning film director Andrzej Wajda (1929–2016) was an avid collector of all information relating to himself and his film-making. In 1978 he made a documentary film about a fellow collector, Ludwig Zimmerer (1924–1987), who accumulated thousands of paintings and objects of Polish folk art. This article tells the stories of these two men and their collections. I suggest that an investigation into the lives and times of Wajda and Zimmerer can shed new light on the psychological processes that inform collecting. Rather than dismissing the compulsion to collect as a product of neurosis, as some previous interpretations have done, I argue here that we should read it as a productive and compensatory method for curing addictions.

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强迫收藏家：欢迎安杰伊·瓦伊达和路德维希Zimmerer的集合内

奥斯卡获奖电影导演安杰伊·瓦伊达（1929年至2016年）是有关他自己和他的电影制作的所有信息，一个狂热的收藏家。1978年他发表了有关资深收藏家的纪录片，路德维希Zimmerer（1924年至1987年），谁积累了成千上万的绘画和波兰民间艺术品。这篇文章讲述了这两个人和他们的收藏故事。我建议对 Wajda 和 Zimmerer 的生活和时代进行调查，可以对影响收藏的心理过程提供新的启示。而不是驳回强制收集尽可能神经官能症的一种产品，因为一些以前的解释都做了，我认为在这里，我们应该把它读作固化成瘾富有成效和补偿方法。