Južnoslavenski baladni sižei u svjetlu psihoanalitičke tradicije
South Slavic Ballad Syuzhet in Light of Psychoanalytical Tradition

Summary/Abstract: The paper South Slavic ballad syuzhet in light of the psychonalytical tradition is be default of comparable character, because it explores, questions the literature material of our area, facing it against Austrian literal-psychoanalytical tradition. The undisputable credit should be given to Victor Tausk – who arose in the cultural environment of the Vienna modernism at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century, whose interest area was quite broad – ranging from journalism and literature to psychoanalysis. Taking advantage of his stay in the South Slavic countries, Victor Tausk was not only fascinated by its „distant closeness” of East and West, but he also shown a particular style in creating his own literar characters. His protagonists were however, accurately and slowly „taken apart” and their psyche was „dissected”. They don’t function normally, because the author is constantly searching for the effects of unusual and bizzare. Therefore, the authors choice of South Slavic ballads which he translated to German is not surprising at all, and through that translation he breathed an new psychoanalitycal component. The paper South Slavic ballad syuzhet in light of the psychonalytical tradition is mostly dealing with the interpretation of translated ballads, the analisys of the literal symbolism, discovering the literal „symptoms” and based on them the hidden meaning is revealed.

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