Three Dogs in the Story of I.S. Turgenev “The Dog”: The Role of the Unconscious in the Poetics of the Writer
https://doi.org/10.18384/2310-7278-2022-1-68-75
Abstract
Aim. The purpose of the paper is to examine the allegorical layer in I. S. Turgenev’s story “The Dog”.
Methodology. The paper studies I. S. Turgenev’s story “The Dog” from the standpoint of psychoanalytic literary studies.
Results. The analysis showed that the story “The Dog” can be understood as a text in the structure of which the elements of the unconscious clearly manifest themselves. The image of one of the three dogs that appear in the text is a metaphor for the dark side, which is not accessible to the consciousness of the main character. Turgenev’s story is not a “trifle”, as many contemporaries believed. In his intuition about the nature of the unconscious, the writer was far ahead of his time, and his story also represents an experience in the field of new poetics, the principles of which were developed in the writer’s late work, to which it is customary to refer everything he wrote after “Fathers and Sons”.
Research implications. A new approach to the analysis of the story makes it possible to activate the reader’s perception of the text, when the reader himself has to decipher the deep psychological and anthropological meanings hidden behind allegorical and parabolic constructions. The same approach can be used for further research on the “mysterious stories” of I.S. Turgenev.
About the Author
E. E. Kruglova
Moscow City University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Elena E. Kruglova – Postgraduate Student, Department of Russian Literature, Moscow City University.
Vtoroi Selskokhozyaistvennyi proezd 4, str. 1, Moscow 129226.
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