Proza lui Max Blecher în oglindă psihanalitică

Abstract

This paper aims at reading Max Blecher’s prose with the help of a
psychocritical key, revealing the mythological underlayer of his work. The first stage of
the analysis proposes the identification of the cultural myths suggested by the symbolic
architecture of the text: the myths of Narcissus, Pygmalion, Sisyphus, the Minotaur,
Icarus, the Demiurge. Next there is a contextual deciphering of the myths highlighted by
Blecher’s characters, the writer’s alter egos. At the end, these myths will be interpreted
through Carl Gustave Jung’s psychoanalitical system, all leading to the personal myth
of the author, the myth of individualization. This paper will show how in Max Blecher’s
novels the cultural myth contributes to the construction of the personal myth,
individualization being perceived like a way to wholeness through the acceptance of the
personality’s conscious and unconscious parts. The goal of the textual analysis will
reveal a good command of the writer’s self, voice of the fictional writing by a
biographical ego, an empirical hypostasis of the author.