Transformation of the Subject in the Act of the Reverse birth: Analysis of the Search of the Lost Mother (based on A. Platonov’s Texts)

Abstract

The article is dedicated to the ontological analysis of A. Platonov's texts. The classical theme of orphancy, raised by the writer, is analyzed through the definitions of J. Kristeva about searching of the lost motherly. The problem of the displacement of the mother by European rationality leaves open the question of the status of this space. In the analysis of the text, it is represented by the concept of Michel Foucault that is heterotopia, for conceptualizing the hidden, repressed space of the mother in the text. The article analyzes the desire to overcome the orphancy by central characters in Dzhan and Chevengur, which are emotionally various texts, not in the trivial context of the connection with the father, but with regard to the search of the mother and the realization of her finding - the return to the womb that is the connection between the process of birth and the symbolic overcoming of death. The author approves the use of the categorical framework of psychoanalysis and philosophical concepts in the analysis of a literary text. The difference between the two texts analyzed in the process of overcoming orphancy represents the desire to build a happy utopia in the Soviet reality of the conflicting 30s.