THE INFLUENCE OF PSYCHOLOGY ON FICTION IN THE CONTEXT OF THE TURN OF THE 20TH CENTURY AND MODERNISM
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The article examines the influence of psychology on fiction at the turn of the 20th century and during the modernist period. In particular, due to a specific role of the clinical psychoanalysis in many European writers’ biographies at the beginning of the 20th century, and taking into account the fact of their combing the literary and scientific activities, we can state their conscious orientation (V. Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, M. Proust, etc.) towards Freud’s and Jung’s theories which became very popular. In the article we also refer to the results of other scholars’ research who analyze the main factors of the influence mentioned. Besides, some tendencies in the changing form and content of the novel created in this period are considered. The new forms of literary “psychologism” are presented on the example of I. Svevo’s novel The Confessions of Zeno and the essay of a Belarusian writer St. Hrynkevich. The latter also serves as a demonstration of interdiscursivity in the essay genre where the contemporary achievements of psychology and psychoanalysis were actively professed. The main conclusion of the article consists of singling out several stages in the process of psychology/literature interaction, as well as in the interpretation of the genre of a psychoanalytic novel.
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