Značenje i funkcija “sestre” u kontekstu Muziiovog shvatanja ljubavi
Meaning and function of sister in context of Musil’s concept of love

Summary/Abstract: In this paper the authoress establishes the poly-semantic, multifunctional concept of the “sister” as one of the most significant categories of Robert Musil’s understanding of love. The “sister” is the inner image which “represents” the human need for the realization of “the other”, ethically based “life in love”. The experience of unification with the being of other people and things, which is at the root of this form of life, can be achieved with the help of a more or less depersonalized love object, which analogically corresponds to the inner “image of the sister”. The analogical principle of metaphor is present not only in the structure of the “image of the sister” but also in the mechanism of its binding with the love object. In the “love between twins” the “image of the sister” takes the form of the real sister Agathe, who represents the “Doppelganger” of Ulrich’s soul. “Creative participation” in the “love between twins” is based on the establishing of the mutual content, the so called “third sister”, which is supposed to insure the continuation of the condition of unification.

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