“Расщепленный субъект” в современной поэзии: Обнажение приема

Abstract

Recently, the “lyric subject” has become a problematic category: it has ceased to be taken as an integral bearer of consciousness and speech and has begun to be perceived as a construct that is modelled in the text and does not exist outside the scope of the text. A notable characteristic of recent poetry is that the subject of the text becomes “split” into the “Writing Self” that generates the direct speech structure of the text and the “Other Self” that acts as a reflective instance in relation to the former. Applying Jacques Lacan’s “split subject” concept to the analysis of contemporary poetic texts, we identify a range of creative and communicative strategies through which the subject finds its reflexive origin in the text. These strategies are as follows: a metalinguistic, intertextual, or removal and dismissal strategy; a role-playing strategy; and a bodily strategy. These strategies change and alternate in a given author’s texts as well as interact and overlap with each other, creating a more complex system of dependencies within the “split” subject.