Ukraine – Spain: the archetypes of national characters in the cross-cultural context

Abstract

The aim of the article. The aim of the research consists in determination of the points of cross-cultural intersection between Ukraine and Spain, in a search of Ukrainian identity in the light of Spanish national character. The research methodology. The absence of the special works, concerned with Ukrainian-Spanish relationships from the point of a cross-cultural dialogue, led to the topic of the research. Certain scholar explorations (such as an essay Que (no) sabemos del romance anonimo of Spanish scholar Santiago Porras Alvarez: 2002) have no significant effect on situation. Comparative analysis is performed by means of several terms, such as “national character” (work of N. Boholiubova and Yu. Nikolaieva, 2009), “archetype” (psychoanalysis of K.G. Jung), “cultural archetype” (article of D. Lvov, 2018), “cross-cultural analysis” (monograph of T. Kornylova, 2014). The results. A certain typological commonness was found through crosscultural comparison of the cultures of Ukraine and Spain. The presented parallels between the archetypical images and their main place in the mindsets of both peoples have opened up new horizons for further research. Restoration of the concept of the Ukrainian national character, its integral image still requires time, research interest and crystallization. However, we were able to find the core features in the system of mindset formation, such as feminocentricity, apocalection and mystical shade of a worldview, religious commitment, valiance and militancy. Novelty. In the article, for the first time not only on the territory of the Ukrainian music studies, but also in the world, it is proposed to draw an analogy between the representation of the national character in the culture of Ukraine and Spain on the basis of typological commonness of “cultural archetypes”, which are at the bottom of the manifestation of the national identity of two European countries. The practical significance. Comparison of cultural achievements of Ukraine and Spain (music, literature, folklore) to a certain extent cleared the understanding of the Ukrainian national character from “Little Russian depositions”, using the Spanish phenomenon as a symbolic “Other”.