Enantiodromia of (un)reality

Abstract

This paper aims to analyse the auctorial way of outlining the temporary unreality in Max Blecher’s work, which gradually changes its dystopian coordinates, regaining its original status of primary reality, an assumed blamed and accepted one. Using Carl Gustav Jung’s psychoanalytical grid, the enantiodromia of the work can be proved to exist, a principle in which opposites enter an unpredictable game of pole reversal. The psychoanalysed text is an excerpt from the novel „Vizuina luminată” when the police dogs rise against their owners. The critical analysis follows the parable of the human existence translated into psychoanalytical language, where the characters and symbols reveal the ability of the discharged contents of answering the moral censorship at the unconscious level. The next step is the identification of those antithetic forces that lose their energy straining to rectify what has been denied or rejected. Thus, any exacerbated tendencies of the self will be retaliated with visionary acts aiming to re-establish the psychic order, Max Blecher’s text bringing the novelty and the playfulness of the alternative worlds.