| Abstract [eng] |
In psychoanalytic art criticism, identification is typically examined through the author’s ties with contemporaries or by analysing with whom and why readers, viewers, or listeners relate. This study, however, shifts focus back to the work itself, exploring how identification operates within it. Literature here is not a gateway to the creator’s or perceiver’s psyche but an expressive surface where identification unfolds as a discursive act. This act is performed not only by characters but also by what structuralists term the enunciator – a producer of discourse that emerges only through it. Such an approach introduces a new field of literary discourse research in Lithuania. Unlike classical structuralism, it treats the enunciator as an unconsciously desiring figure. However, the concept of the unconscious is examined not only through Sigmund Freud but also through Jacques Lacan, who reformulated the former’s ideas using linguistics. This allows one to see identification not just as becoming another but also as a statement attesting to, promising, or even rejecting transformation. The specifics of this process are examined in the dissertation both theoretically and practically: the works of three contemporary Lithuanian authors (Alvydas Šlepikas, Sigitas Parulskis, and Giedra Radvilavičiūtė) are analysed as discourses of obsessive, hysterical, and perverse identification, through which a distinctive concept of mortality also emerges. |
