Одвајање сенке: о двојницама у приповеци „Видосава” Миомира Петровића и филму Лептирица Ђорђа Кадијевића

Abstract

The main purpose of the paper is to analyze the two main female characters, Vidosavа, from the story of the same name by Miomir Petrović, and Radojka appearing in the film The She-Butterfly by Đorđe Kadijević, from the perspective of Baudrillard’s understanding of symbolic exchanges and the independence of the primitive double. The analyzed motif similarities in the aforementioned works of art are related to the phenomenon of transformation, which both Radojka and Vidosava experience including all three phases of the rite of passage (preliminary, liminary and postliminary), according to the typology of Arnold van Gennep. By combining Baudrillard’s and Van Gennep’s postulates, the separation of the primitive double from the personality is presented. Through the preliminary and liminal phase, the double figure gains more and more strength, so that in the final, post-liminal phase, it is directed against the subject; the double is represented as a shadow that has been separated. This type of manifestation of the double figure is connected with the Freudian term ”Das Unheimliche”. The liminal phase of the transformation was marked by an inexplicable uneasy feeling that Vidosava caused due to her very appearance. She became a specter, her presence was disturbing, so this form of manifestation of the double figure was linked to this psychological phrase. When it comes to the transformation in Kadijević’s movie, it was noted that the rival relationship between the two energies would illustrate the sudden separation of the personality and its primitive double. The struggle that takes place at the level of being can be represented as an energy oscillation as the link between the personality and the double breaks as a result of their activity. The identity fluctuation of the main character is more and more pronounced over time since there is a liminality, an inability to penetrate to the person herself, due to the strengthening of the double figure that is sometimes imposed and periodically removed in front of us. Just like in the short story “Vidosava”, there is ”Das Unheimliche”, which haunts us with the sense of inexplicable discomfort. In the post-liminal phase, a terrifying double figure is revealed. The image of the vampire is also significant, which being a common motif, connects ”Vidosava” and The She-Butterfly and places them in the field of mythic, ritual and fantastic, while at the same time confirming Baudrillard’s position about the double that returns to haunt and haunt the subject