"Schizos” and "loonies” o f W. Shukshin (in the aspect o f Antony Kempinsky ’s psychopathic classification) Cover Image

Шукшинские психи и шизи (в аспекте психопатической классификации Антония Кемпинского)
"Schizos” and "loonies” o f W. Shukshin (in the aspect o f Antony Kempinsky ’s psychopathic classification)

Author(s): Roman Shubin
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego w Olsztynie
Keywords: Shukshin; schizophrenic discourse; Kępiński; psychopathologies; epileptoid personality; labyrinth; spite; anger;

Summary/Abstract: In this article the author considers images of protagonists and the narrator in aspect ofpsychopathic type of epileptoides, described by Antony Kempinsky. This psychotype in article isbeyond especially psychiatric classification and becomes the cultural frame describing aggressive and despotic cultural system with repressions inside and expansion outside, what was socialist system of a period of cold war. Shukshin characters bear on themselves burden of this system: dreaming to become heroes of the country, they focus in themselves negative lines: despotism, hate, anger, rage, rejection. Conflicts between heroes in stories tell about fight of the person against the system which is not leaving freedoms and spirituality. Shukshin artist’s eye snatches out from crowd thin and thick, small and large, weak and strong for heroes and their enemies, butthis choice is predetermined by the single psychopathic situation which has been taken out fromsoul of the writer.

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: XVIII
  • Page Range: 123-135
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Russian