Donor text in the mirror of psychoanalysis (Petrushevskaja and Chekhov)

Abstract

Donor text in the mirror of psychoanalysis (Petrushevskaja and Chekhov) In the article Donor text in the mirror of psychoanalysis (Petrushevskaja and Chekhov) the author examines intertextual roll in the works of Wild Animals’ of Tales of Ludmila Petrushevskaja and its pre-source – Anton Chekhov’s drama The Seagull. A tool for the analysis and interpretation of Chekhov’s text is an intertext of L.A. Petrushevskaja. It is also an element of debunking and correction of Chekhov’s concept from the standpoint of the Oedipus complex. Remake of Wild Animals’ of Tales in some way is an unconscious struggle of a contemporary author with his creative progenitor, playwright, which dramatically influenced on is creative development. Petrushevskaja concentrates biologize Chekhov separating from his plays, in fact, his own postmodern self-portrait. Thus, indirectly makes a complaint to the modernist “underdeveloped” of his writing, stylistically and conceptually competes with it.

Keywords

• remake
• postmodernism
• archetypes
• literary psychoanalysis