Nibelungs and psychoanalysts: freudian and jungian approaches to the analysis of «Das nibelungenlied»
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The article considers the attempts to analyze the medieval German heroic epos «Das Nibelungenlied» («The Lay of Nibelungs») by the representatives of Freudian and Jungian schools of psychoanalysis. Special attention is paid to the theory of American expert on the «NibelungenledВ» Winder MacConnell who, relying on key concepts of the identity theory by Karl Jung, offered a convincing analysis of psychological images of the characters of the poem and their motivations. The ideas of the article are illustrated with examples from the original text of the poem (manuscripts B and partially A) according to the Stuttgart edition of 1892, the literary translation of examples is given in Yu. B. Korneev's version.
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- психоанализ
- психоаналитическая литературная критика
- фрейдизм
- Карл Юнг
- личное и коллективное бессознательное
- Анимус
- Тень
- Самость
- Подавление
- героико-эпическая поэма «Песнь о Нибелунгах»
- Кримхильда
- Зигфрид
- Хаген Тронье
- Зигмунд
- бургундские короли
- psychoanalysis
- psychoanalytic literary criticism
- Freudian approach
- Carl Jung
- personal and collective unconscious
- the Animus
- the Shadow
- the Self
- Repression
- heroic epic “Das Nibelungenlied” (the Lay of The Nibelungs)
- Kriemhield
- Siegfried
- Hagen von Tronege
- Siegmund
- Burgundian kings
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