Mehis Heinsaar ja kirjanduse allikad. Üleastuvast ja isevoogavast kirjandusest
Early Works of Mehis Heinsaar

Summary/Abstract: this article analyses the early works of Estonian writer mehis Heinsaar in the context of Estonian literature and psychoanalysis. Heinsaar’s way of writing differs from the traditional linear narration, where characters strive towards realization of their desires, yet Heinsaar’s works also differ from the literature of transgression, where, in a way aptly described by michel Foucault, the possibilities of literature are taken to the extremes in writing towards death. In order to position Heinsaar’s work, the author proposes two different psychoanalytic models of literature: the first, a Lacanian model, can be described as an axis of desire, where different narrative works can be lined up according to the urgency of the textual desire, from a weak desire towards a transgressive one. the second, a deleuzian model, cannot be presented as an axis, but rather as a wave: according to this model, works like mehis Heinsaar’s are motivated not by striving towards the fulfilment of desires, but are situated within a field of pluralities, where instead of striving towards a final goal, characters move within the flux of multiple desires, always in motion and always in transformation.

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