MEHANIZMI PREGOVORA SA GUBITKOM: TRAUMA MRTVE DRAGE U GAVRANU I MORELI EDGARA ALANA POA I U ROMANU SABO JE STAO OTA HORVATA

Abstract

The common thread which connects Morella and The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe and the novel Sabo has stopped by Oto Horvat is the theme of a dead beloved which is the cause of trauma for the three heroes. Firstly, we will discuss trauma as a psychological state, then we will point out the motif of a dead beloved which is simultaneously one of the most beautiful and the most tragic motifs in literature. The paper will examine the traumatic and post-traumatic states of the subjects, that is, it will investigate which and what mechanisms of negotiations with a loss exist in the mentioned works, what purpose they serve and whether they enable deliverance from trauma for the subjects. Therefore, we will indicate whether and in what way it is possible to overcome the trauma in the mentioned works. Dead beloveds - Lenore, Morella and A. - they are presented differently and their deaths are thematized in different ways. In every possible way, the subjects try to keep the dead beloved alive, at least in the text, at least discursively, at least in memory. The aim is to point out the principles of functioning of (and attempts to overcome) trauma, from the mildest example, The Raven, to the most extreme, the novel Sabo has stopped, in which the subject became completely empathetic with trauma. In addition to the thematization of the dead beloved, Morella will also serve as an example of how the unsurpassed traumas can be devastating and tragic for the subject due to their accumulation.