The Symptoms of the Character. Case Study: Leiba Zibal
The Symptoms of the Character. Case Study: Leiba Zibal

Summary/Abstract: This paper proposes interpreting some aspects of Caragiale’s work using a psychologycal and traumatological grid. In the first part we discussed Jungian concepts of shadow and persona, which are applicable to the drama. Part two focuses on An Easter Torch novel, sketching Leiba Zibal experienced traumatic situation and its consequences. The symptoms occured in fictional character rendered in literary techniques of great finesse, at the boundary between tragic and grotesque, it is a real clinical picture of a mental disorganization caused by trauma, fear, anxiety neurosis.

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