Pszichoanalitikus énirodalmak, irodalmi önanalízisek
Psychoanalytic Autofictions and Literary Self-Analyses

Summary/Abstract: One of the “symptoms” of the 20th spiritual-cultural milieu is the flowing of psychoanalysis into the public discourse and literature both as a subject and as an approach. This produces genres overlapping between science, autobiography and fiction, speaking from different professional backgrounds, with partly different motivations and “implied readers”. Their common element is the need of self-reflection, with a desire and ability to textually record its result, moving from scholarly discourse towards fiction, or from fiction towards self-analysis. My paper explores through the examples of a few women psychoanalysts and writers, how some analysts use the autobiographical and fictional genres, how psychoanalytic knowledge can be the background/foreground of autobiography/autofiction and how literary skills and forms can become the field and tool of self-analysis. The analysed works include the autobiographical novel of psychoanalyst Edit Gyömrői, the diaries of psychoanalyst Alice Bálint, the autobiographical writings, portraits and short stories of Mrs. Kosztolányi Ilona Harmos, and two novelettes of Sophie Török.

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