Reprezentări arhetipale ale outsiderului în proza lui Max Blecher

Résumé

The paper aims at identifying the markers of the Judaic profile of writer Max Blecher, concealed in the representation of some archetypal pattern fictionally transposed in his prose under the guise of various identities. Applying Gustav Jung’s psychoanalytical theory, which prefigures the collective unconscious actualized in the inner figures known as personae, one identifies in Blecher’s novels character types which tacitly ensconce the figure of the stranger, of the other. The paper exemplifies this imago suite (the mannequin, the harlequin, the hero, the madman, the animalic and the invalid,), revealing their specific behavioral manifestations which lead to an ontological crisis, a recurrent theme of Max Blecher’s novels. Thus, the last invariant proves to be the most authentic archetype, the author being traceable in the typology of the invalid without turning his disease into a myth and, at the same time, assuming the Jewish identity, at the risk of damnation in a profoundly anti-Semitic period.