CREATING A PSYCHOLOGICAL PORTRAIT OF A POSTMODERN CHARACTER IN ENGLISH LITERARY TEXT

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CREATING A PSYCHOLOGICAL PORTRAIT OF A POSTMODERN CHARACTER IN ENGLISH LITERARY TEXT

Journal Title: Одеський лінгвістичний вісник - Year 2018, Vol 11, Issue

Abstract

The article provides the results of сreating a psychological portrait of a postmodern character in English literary text using some elements of Jungian Analytical Psychology, namely, the Psychology of Shadow. The paper highlights some theoretical assumptions of the G. C. Jung’s concept of Psychology of the Unconsciousness, according to which psyche is not only our consciousness but also our unconsciousness. It consists of several layers: Persona, i.e. collective consciousness, i.e. the mask, the character that we show to others; Ego, individual consciousness, that is “I”, self–identity, self–esteem; Shadow, individual unconsciousness, usually complexes, shameful actions, feelings, weaknesses that a person tries to hide; Archetypes, i.e. collective unconsciousness, which comprises religious believes, myths and magic. It is proved that archetypes are recognisable in outer behaviours, especially those that cluster around the basic and universal experiences of life such as: birth marriage, motherhood, death. The paper discusses that archetypes also adhere to the structure of human psyche itself and are observable in relation to inner or psychic life, revealing themselves by way of such inner figures as Anima, Shadow, Persona and so forth. The article reconsiders the ways of creating a psychological portrait of a postmodern character in a literary text, which is predetermined by certain rules. These rules are historically changeable, they directly depend on the writing traditions, and ideas present in a given ideological literary period as well as on definite literary conventions perpetuated in a given literary genre. The article is focused on a postmodern literary text where a character generates the sense of absurdity and nonsense, loneliness and total contradictions. It is proved that a postmodern character possesses various mental disorders, being a schizoid personality i.e. oversensitive, self-centered, conflicted psyche, who is isolated in a dynamic, highly technological postmodern society

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Oksana Babelyuk

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