PSYCHOANALYTIC INTERPRETATION OF LITERARY ACTIVITIES: PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS

Abstract

INTRODUCTION In literary activities, there are a lot of artistic reminiscences falling into the plane of the so-called “poetics of non-expressed science”, where, by pathologizing the social behaviour of a person at the level of interpersonal phenomena, the author-psychoanalyst tries to heal the spiritually broken state of their soul with Word. Finally, the other side of the case can be traced. The artist, like his characters, is also a human with their internal problems: neuroticism, passion, complexes, desires, failures, successes, and so on. The anthropological meaning of psychoanalysis and literary activities is to bring benefits to the true essence of the human. English thinker E. Burke believed that art should not originate from the artistic needs of aesthetics, but from the spiritual promptings of the individual. This also applies to psychoanalysis as one of the methods of psychotherapy. However, this generates problems of the worldview. Psychoanalysis and literary activities mostly focus on the two-dimensional (body–soul) anthropological dialectics of the human life world, which does not reflect all of its existential dimensions. Literary criticism in our study shows that the prospect of a psychoanalytic interpretation of literary activities is closely related to the Christian understanding of three-dimensional (body–soul–spirit) anthropological dialects of the human life world. It is well known that the emergence of psychoanalysis as a science owes its origin to religion. The actual Christological reconstruction of psychoanalytic paradigmatic relations in literary activities, in our opinion, will contribute to the deepening of anthropological research.