Семинарът „литература и психоанализа”
A Seminar оn Literature аnd Psychoanalysis

Summary/Abstract: The text presents the interdisciplinary forum “Literature and Psychoanalysis”, which takes place since 2016 (ongoing) and is held in the form of monthly meetings between literary critics and psychoanalysts. The meetings have been initiated by the “Department of theory and history of literature” (at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”) and “Association Bulgarian Psychoanalytic Space”. In the following text we have presented the history of the abovementioned forum, its’ specific format as well as the possibility and impossibility of an encounter between those different fields and approaches. We have presented and analyzed the figures of Oedipus, Narcissus, Don Juan, Hamlet and Faust, which have been at the focus of research of the specific seminars, as well as the different questions and topics of interpretation, play, knowledge and fantasy – all of which being central to the discourses of literature and of psychoanalysis.

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