ПСИХОАНАЛИТИЧКИ ДИСКУРС У ПРИЧАМА У НЕСТАЈАЊУ СВЕТИСЛАВА БАСАРЕ
The psychoanalytic discourse in Vanishing Tales by Svetislav Basara

Summary/Abstract: In this paper we investigate relations between postmodern literature and psychoanalysis of Jacques Lacan through the analysis of Vanishing Tales, literary work written by Svetislav Basara. Genre of Vanishing Tales is described as aliterary hybrid, work made through the play on words and meaning similar to discourse of Jacques Lacan which is also hybrid and himeric. This work indicates a plurality of meanings in discourse of Svetislav Basara and process of relativisation of borders made by literary convention. We discover shizofrenic, paranoid and halucinant aspects of discourse of Svetislav Basara and Jacques Lacan, and also in all other types of theoretical discourses. We discover irrational and unconscious nature of discourse and position of subject alienated in language. Discourse of Svetislav Basara just as discourse of Lacan is build upon testing of borders. Constant challenge of borders creates plurality of meanings and disposal of message. Vanishing Tales are also testing the border of Lacan’s empty place of subject, empty place of text, or the Real. Hybrid, himeric narration directs us to formal aspects of literary work. We discover an open text that allows multiple interpretations by the readers, and which do not posses true characters and true plot. We analyse short story created around Lacan’s unspeakable, empty place, death or trauma. Analysis is therefore directed to potential places of trauma which creates and subverts the text in the same time. We reconsider the idea of strong, self-conscious, and autonomous subject. Selfsubverted subject, controlled by discourse and his attempts to confirm his existence lead to main questions of Vanishing Tales by Svetislav Basara. Those questions we find in relation between certainty and uncertainty, between wish to control and true cognition. On the pages of Vanishing Tales we are facing decomposition of subject that opens questions of identity. Inability to answer on those questions brings us to absurd and melancholy as realization of conections between being and non-sense.

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