The phenomenon of consciousness flow in Ukrainian literature and its psychoanalytic reconstruction

other, although they didn’t know each other and weren’t familiar with each other’s works. If S. Freud treated mental disorders and injuries of the subconsciousness by the method of free associations, while decoding the latent effect of mental mechanisms (dis-placement, projection, replacement, rationalization, etc.), then M. Kotsubynskyi had depicted the course of the subconsciousness mental processes by artistic techniques, primarily such as subtext, repeat, metaphor, prospecting and retrospection. Therefore, it is natural that the works of Mykhailo Kotsubynskyi are at the top not only for Ukrainian, but also for world literature. No one was able to transform the work-landscape into a “language” of the human soul with its crisis and dramatic states. A psychoanalytic interpretation makes it possible to translate the symbols of flowers, nature into the language of mental storms, traumas and recovery. In addition, a new concept has been introduced into scientific circulation – “artistic psychoanalysis”, in analogy to the already existing – “artistic psychology”. The last one signifies the phenomenon when the writer depicts the deep processes in the hero’s soul, down to the subconsciousness. It is proved that Ukrainian writers of the “new generation”, as well as European artists, reached exactly such depths. In particular, Kotsubynskyi made artistic discoveries that were partly ahead of S. Freud’s bold hypotheses.