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Eдипова трагика и аутизъм в българската литература (из историята на един дебат)
Oedipal Tragedy and Autism in Bulgarian Literature (The History of a Debate)

Author(s): Nina Ivanova Dimitrova
Subject(s): Poetry, Aesthetics, Local History / Microhistory, Recent History (1900 till today), Bulgarian Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Институт по философия и социология при БАН
Keywords: psychoanalysis; Bulgarian poetry; the interwar period in Bulgaria; Botev; Yavorov

Summary/Abstract: The article treats of an important problem in its historical and cultural aspect – the relationship between psychology and literature as debated in the 1930s and 1940s in Bulgaria. Special attention is devoted to the interpretations of the Bulgarian literary heritage, specifically to the poetry of Christo Botev and Peyo Yavorov. A comparative analysis is made of the various stances (Marxist, Rehmkean, Nietzschean, etc.) in the debate, with a focus on the psychoanalytical hermeneutics of Bulgarian poetry. The failure of psychoanalytic literary criticism is explained as due to its effort to be simultaneously part of the humanities and of science.

  • Issue Year: XXV/2016
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 152-164
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: English, Bulgarian