Reprezentări ale inconștientului în proza modernistă rusă și engleză. O analiză a romanelor „Petersburg” de A. Belîi și „Femei îndrăgostite” de D.H. Lawrence
Representations of The Subconscious in Russian and English Modernist Prose. A study on A. Bely's "Petersburg" and D. H. Lawrence's „Women in Love"

Summary/Abstract: The following article is a study on different hypostases of the subconscious mind, present in the novels of Andrei Bely and D.H. Lawrence. Its objective is to examine the importance of this theme for Modernist prose and also to discuss the main similarities and differences in the writers’ approach of this phenomenon. Although there are several major differences in their approach, generated by the social, political and traditional background, both authors seem to consider the subconscious a dark, hidden side of the human psyche, which preserves the suppressed instincts and desires. Their description corresponds to the Freudian concept of the Id and the general message in both novels is that the repressed emotions and the inner conflicts can become important risk factors which cause social violence and self-destructive behaviour. At the same time, given their affinity to Symbolism, the writers use several symbols, with the help of which they make an interesting description of their characters’ inner tension. All these allow them to create complex characters and to study the discrepancies in their personalities.

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