ANALYSIS EROS AND THANATOS OF THE WORKS OF BUNIN FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF FREUD

Abstract

Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin became the first Russian writer who receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. Death and love are two eternal themes throughout his entire work. The characters written by the writer are fascinated by the fear of death, passion for life and the desire for love, but at the same time always towards the path of self-destruction. Freud believed that in the nature of life itself there is an ultimate duality – eros and thanatos, and their eternal struggle becomes the driving force of life. Literary creativity is a substitute for the satisfaction of the suppressed desires of artists, and its disguised psychological expression. Bunin and Freud lived in the same era, although one was a writer and the other a psychologist, but both went to the same goal – they searched for the highest meaning of life and death throughout their lives. The article analyzes works of I.A. Bunin from the point of view of Z. Freud, exploring his eros and thanatos in order to understand the creative psychology of the author.