This dissertation describes specific features of the oneiric discourse of contemporary Ukrainian prose, revealed in the novels "The Rose of Ritual Pain", "Masks Fall off Slowly", and "Black Apple" by Stepan Protsiuk, "The Flood Emperor" by Volodymyr Yeshkiliev, and "The Satellites" by Andriy Zhurakivskiy. The research is centered on formation of oneiric structures in the authors' texts, their functioning, methods of realization in the text, interconnections on the macro- and micro-levels, and their analysis.The study describes the neomodern discourse of oneiric and allegoric prose by Stepan Protsiuk, reveals the functioning of oneiric elements in such dichotomies as "real-irreal", "individual-collective", "sublimated-repressed" in his “psychobiographical trilogy”. The allegorical oneirism of Stepan Protsiuk's novels is described as one of the distinctive features of the writer’s individual style.The dissertation also observes theoretical and practical aspects of constructing oneiric-based fiction realities in the novel "The Flood Emperor" by Volodymyr Yeshkiliev. Relying on the contemporary literary studies on postmodern in Ukrainian literature (Kharchuk), oneiric discourse of contemporary prose (Lazarenko, Kosheliuk), and Volodymyr Yeshkiliev’s creative method (Holnyk), we have offered a hypothesis of necessity of studying the novel “The Flood Emperor” in the context of oneiric analysis. Analyzing subconscious phenomena with psychoanalytic (Jung) and ideological (Zizek) methods and literary analysis, we have explicited the terms "oneiric", "oneiric chronotope", and "fiction machine" and formed a combinatory approach to the text’s oneiric layer. The author suggests considering the novel a postmodern game and differentiating the oneiric chronotope itself ("Opadlo" locus and other alternative worlds) from the dream layer which stylizes the text.This work also regards the novel “The Satellites” by Andriy Zhurakivskiy as an object of sociocultural and psychoanalytical analysis. In this work, we have revealed the main types of nonconscious (including, among other things, the difference between dreams, hallucinations, delusions, and reveries, as well as between oneirical and paranoidally-hallucinatory visions), formed the oneiric structure (according to the chronotopic division into dream levels and sublevels, as proposed by plot collisions), and explicated fragments of ideological and mass-cultural discourse, furthermore analyzing the parallel «Zhurakivskiy-Carroll» as the basis for an exchange of images and archetypes, as well as the basis for creation of a postmodern textual discourse due to parodying, intertextuality.
