Botul devorator şi arhetipul pâinii la Dostoievski
The Devouring Jaws and Dostoevky’s Bread Archetype

Summary/Abstract: Two hundred years after the birth of F. M. Dostoevsky, his work of exemplary dimensions and depth for the entire world literature attracts with the same power. Vladimir Marinov saw in the “profound realism” of Dostoevsky's characters not just the insertion into a plan of hallucination, but also an affinity, rare for writers, to the dream and even the archetype. The exclusivity which psychoanalysis can claim in approaching literature in general must be carefully monitored, reducing the artist to neurosis only being one of the errors that the present approach will try to avoid, as much as possible. The archetypal elements, on the other way, which are related to a certain structure of the collective unconscious, usually make the difference between the literary creation linked to boundaries and the one that transgresses the boundaries of the space in which it appears in order to impose itself, with its cultural specificity, by accessing that common fond. Two of the most complex archetypes identified in Dostoevsky’s novels are the mouth that devours, called by G. Durand “devouring jaws”, and the archetype of bread.

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