Problematica identitară a unui narcoman în ,,Romanul cocainei’’ de Mihail Agheev
Identity Issue of a Narcomaniac in ’’Novel With Cocaine’’ by Mihail Agheev

Summary/Abstract: Novel with cocaine follows the experiences of a drug addict, Vladimir Maslennikov. The main character is a troubled student who obsessively examines his life under the magnifying glass of extreme lucidity. Vladimir Maslennikov descends into the underground of his conscience to understand the failure of his existence and uses cocaine to create a new deviant personality. This alter-ego is based on pathological behavior and used as a coping mechanism towards reality’s endeavors to undertake his true ego. The purpose of this study is to identify what happens within the identity matrix in the case of drug addiction and how the character's identity changes under the influence of narcotics.

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