ONEIRIC SPACE AND PROBLEMS OF ARTISTIC MODELING OF BRUNO SCHULZ

Abstract

Leading Schulz scholars rightly note that despite numerous studies of Schulz’s discourse, some as- pects remain understudied. This primarily concerns the oneiric space, its role, and peculiarities of function- ing in the structure of Schulz’s texts. The purpose of the article is to determine the peculiarities of the onei- ric discourse of Bruno Schulz’s prose in the context of representation of the imagination, the embodiment of metaphorical imagery in the motive structure of the works of fiction, the correlation of dream and real- ity, ideal and reality. This is facilitated by psychoanalytic oneirological theories, as well as materials from the latest oneirological literary studies. The research has been carried out based on a hermeneutic ap- proach with the involvement of phenomenological, psychological (partially – psychoanalysis), biographi-– psychoanalysis), biographi- psychoanalysis), biographi- cal, descriptive, and intertextual methods. Throughout the study, several initial tasks been solved, investi- gated, and clarified. The main peculiarities of the (mutual)influence have been identified and the points of contact and intersection between the components of the correlation of the work of Z. Freud and C.-G. Jung (the queen of psychoanalysis) works of art and literary texts (oneiric discourse) have been characterized accordingly. In the historiographical aspect, the problem of oneirism has been analyzed both in modern literary studies and concerning the creative work of Bruno Schulz. Aspects of oneiric studies of the Schulz direction have been singled out, which need to be deepened or reinterpreted in a certain way. The onei- ric space of Schulz’s prose works has been characterized through the prism of the concepts of dream, vi- sion, and labyrinth as the main system-forming concepts of this space, with emphasis on the main struc- tural and semantic features of the outlined categories. The oneiric discourse of individual literary-critical and epistolary works by Bruno Schulz has been considered. Associativity, a large number of symbols, unre- ality, the marking of dreams with certain signals, the (non)presence of a sequence of events, incomplete- ness, brokenness, schematicity, fragmentation, spatiotemporal mosaicism, etc., have been recognized as typical features of the oneiric events of Schulz’s prose, which is confirmed through numerous illustrations from Schulz’s works of art.

Keywords

• oneiric discourse
• psychoanalysis
• oneiric criticism
• bruno schulz
• «cinnamon shops» («the street of crocodiles»)