Deep-psychological space of the mother complex in Marina Tsvetaeva’s creative consciousness (based on the autobiographical prose)
Iryna Betko
Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski w OlsztynieAbstract
This article, based on the autobiographical prose of Marina Tsvetaeva (in this essays:
Mother and Music, The Story of One Dedication, My Pushkin, and Autobiography etc.),
attempts to analyze the archetypal motifs, that generate the deep-psychological
space of the mother complex in the areas of the writer’s creative consciousness.
The methodological and research base of the article are selected issues of analytical
psychology of Carl Gustav Jung, while its substantive content consists of four main
fragments. In the first one, psychic-existential opposites were identified, closely related
to the perception of the mother’s image by her firstborn daughter and burdening her with
an appropriate complex. The second deals with the dark sides of maternal pedagogy, which
deepen this complex. The third highlights the positive internal features, that arose during
the confrontation with the pianist mother of the poet’s daughter, who fought for her own
creative identity. The fourth discusses ways to compensate for the trauma of the mother
complex. Ambivalent image of the mother, growing to the rank of a powerful symbol, both
affirmed and demonized, was present in Tsvetaeva’s soul not only during the lifetime
of the mother, but also after her death. A great cognitive and aesthetic value is the process
of writer exploring the different archetypal motifs, ultimately guiding the verbalization
of the experience of self-analysis in artistically perfect prose work.
Keywords:
mother complex, archetypal motive, autobiographical prose, Marina TsvetaevaReferences
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