НАДРЕАЛИСТИЧКОТО И МАГИЧНОРЕАЛИСТИЧКОТО РАЗБИРАЊЕ НА ДЕТСКИТЕ ЖЕЛБИ И ФАНТАЗИИ
The Surrealistic and Magical Realistic Understanding of Children's Wishes and Fantasies

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this study is to build a comparative understanding of children’s desires and imagination as distinctive phenomena by interpreting their presence in surrealist and magical realist literature. First, the author provides definitions for these concepts from a philosophical and psychological point of view, using the interpretations of many authors from antiquity to the present, starting with Plato and Aristotle, continuing with Spinoza, Schopenhauer, Hegel and ending with modern views of English, Davison and Kordic. The author then dwells on the interrelationship between desire and related concepts like consciousness, the beginning of thought, creativity, language, as well as concepts internal to desire, such as the relationship between desire and its needs or its subjectivity. The analysis focuses specifically on the expression techniques in these two poetic discourses. Notably, special emphasis is put on the presence, action and significance of repressed desires and child fantasy in several paradigmatic examples from surrealist and magical realist literature such as Breton, Dedinac, Ristic, Vinaver, Esquivel, Morrison, Chingo, Mihajlovski, Lafazanovski. Finally, this paper highlights the similarity between these two poetics in terms of their goals. In surrealism this comes down to the urgent desire for radical transformation of the world and the creation of a new variant, while in magical realism the goal is somewhat milder and consists of pointing out the need to correct the existing world, without ambitions to create a new world.

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