Cinizam medicine i lečenje literaturom
Medical Cynicism And Literary Cure

Summary/Abstract: In our postmodern, virtual,age, it is perhapsnot too bold to state that literature remains the last sanctuary of human meaning. The overall symbolical, religious, and cultural capital of contemporary civilizations undergoes the process of devaluation, whereby literature, although set aside on the margins of media and culture, remains to represent an opportunity to be humane. Therefore, it is in literature that we are to find the archetypal hidden figures of God, as well as the archetypal figures of the concealed cure for a depersonalized man. Sick with civilizational processes and virtual realities, man cannot be curedof his disease (the disease of existence) only by means of specialized medical treatment, but also by means of making sense of his existence within the universe. By repeating, but also disintegrating from their very onset, the conventions and stereotypes of social control, as well as socially and scientifically established and thus guaranteed “health” and “knowledge” (as one of the ultimate misconceptions of historical emancipation), we can perceive literature as the last anamnesis of our diseases and as the last pledge for a more comprehensiverecovery of the Western man. Literature makes the diagnosis that man is “fatally ill”, which is also the Biblical diagnosis and the diagnosis of church tradition. Yet, as is the case with everypoisonandremedy, literature also holds the cure. In opposition to Frankl‟s concept of logotherapy, this paper is focused on the (logo)therapy prescribed by literature.

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