The dissertation analyzes the epistolary, biography and dramaturgy of Lesya Ukrainka with the use of psychoanalytic theory and the author's methodology of its use. Scientific research is aimed at introducing epistolary into the methodology of psychoanalytic research as the voice of the one who is analyzed. Augmented methodology used in the study of Lesya Ukrainka's dramaturgy, it has been proven that it is a play of internal conflicts of the writer. The psychodynamics of the creative personality is traced.
The dissertation proposes a methodology of literary studies, based on the theory of Z. Freud, taking into account the evolution of his views and a holistic vision of mental mechanisms and the structure of the psyche of creative personality. For the first time, Lesya Ukrainka's epistolary became a separate object of psychoanalytic research, involving methods that psychoanalysts use in their psychoanalytic practice. The proposed new reading of Lesya Ukrainka's works, consistent with existing literary interpretations, but supplemented by the discovery of important layers of content: «Blue rose» as a sublimation of object relations, «Obsessed» as a sublimation of the craving of death, «Stone Master» as a sublimation of an Oedipus conflict, «Orgia» as a sublimation of an internal conflict between It and SuperEgo.
The first chapter also described the works of scientists who used psychoanalysis in literary studies: V. Ageeva, T. Gundorova, N. Zborovska, M. Moklytsia, S. Pavlychko, O. Zabuzhko, A. Pekarsky, S. Mikhida, E. Kononenko, A. Chernysh, and others. Each of the researchers made a significant contribution to the development of psychoanalytic interpretation of a work of art and psychology of the writer. It is established that literary methodology is based mainly on a fragmented combination of different, even opposite (Freudism and Jungianism) psychoanalytic concepts. The work shows the benefits of using a holistic concept.
The second chapter analyzes the epistolary of Lesya Ukrainka. In letters, the research attention was focused on identifying the elements of unconscious, displaced experiences. Due to the application of psychoanalysis theory as a concept of psychic mechanisms and their elements, the important stages of the writer's psychic life and the specificity of the formation of creative personality were outlined: from the traumatic experience of childhood to separation and effective sublimation in creativity. Stages: Childhood (1871–1882), adolescence (1883–1895), period of attempts of separation (1895–1901), period of the competition with mother and aktiv separation (1901–1907), period of final separation and active sublimation (1907–1913).
The third chapter analyzes the five dramas of Lesya Ukrainka, which shows the course of Lesya Ukrainka's internal conflicts. On the basis of letters in chapter II, the stages of psychodynamics of Lesya Ukrainka were determined. Each of the analyzed dramas is attached to internal conflicts, important or characteristic of a certain stage.
The study shows that a holistic psychoanalytic concept makes it possible to understand the psychic life of a creative personality, to trace all the main psychic mechanisms and draw conclusions about the psychodynamics and specifics of sublimation.
