The Theme of Melancholy in French Symbolism


	Psychology and Psychotechnics Reference: Maslova, V. A. The Theme of Melancholy in French Symbolism // Psychology and Psychotechnics. 2014. № 5. P. 483-492. URL: https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=64996 Maslova, V. A. The Theme of Melancholy in French Symbolism Abstract: The article is devoted to the causes and consequences of the actualization of the topic of pessimism, low mood and despair in French symbolism at the end of the XIXth century. The author also analyzes the reasons of development of the phenomenon of melancholy in the XXth century based on the artwork created by French symbolists and analyzed mostly in poetry, critical articles written by symbolists and analytical publications on art history, history, literary and philosophy devoted to the French symbolism and related to melancholy. The topic can be also described as low mood, sadness, despair, disappointment and the feeling of hopelessness typical for the creativity of symbolic and decadent poets. According to the author, that tendency was caused both by the general intellectual atmosphere of late XIX and goals of symbolism in art. Research methods include the descriptive, systems, comparative and cultural-historical approach. French symbolism is viewed from the phenomenological point of view. The importance of the topic is not only in studying particular examples of French symbolism but also the reflection of the eschatolic mood of those times. Keywords: French symbolism, melancholy, low mood, S. Mallarme, S. Bodler, interiorisation, pessimism, phantasmagoria, fin de siècle. This article can be downloaded freely in PDF format for reading. Download article References 1. Michaud G. Message poétique du symbolisme. T. I. – Paris, 1951. 2. Rapetti R. Le symbolisme. – Paris, 2007. 3. Marchal B. Lire le Symbolisme. – Paris, 1993. 4. Compagnon A.. Baudelaire et les "petits journaux" // Le Huffington Post. 2012 [Elektronnyy resurs]. – URL: http://www.huffingtonpost.fr/antoine-compagnon/facebook-twitter-baudelaire-et-les-petits-journaux_b_1245100.html (data obrashcheniya 16.12.13). 5. Fuko M. Istoriya bezumiya v klassicheskuyu epokhu. – SPb., 1997. 6. Freyd Z. Pechal' i melankholiya // Psikhologiya emotsiy. Teksty /Pod red. V.K.Vilyunasa, Yu.B.Gippenreyter. – M., 1984. . [Elektronnyy resurs]. – URL: http://psyberlink.flogiston.ru/internet/bits/freud1.htm (data obrashcheniya 16.12.13). 7. Fuko M. Bezumie, otsutstvie tvoreniya // Figury Tanatosa: Iskusstvo umiraniya. Sb. statey / Pod red. A.V. Demicheva, M.S. Uvarova. – SPb., 1998. S.203-211 [Elektronnyy resurs]. – URL: http://anthropology.ru/ru/texts/foucault/thanatos04_22.html (data obrashcheniya 16.12.13). 8. Potebnya A.A. Estetika i poetika. Red.kollegiya: M. F. Ovsyannikov (pred.) i dr. Sost. vstupit. stat'ya i primech. I.V. Ivan'o i A.I.Kolodnoy. – M. – 1976. 9. Proklyatye poety / Per.s fr. M.Yasnova. – SPb., 2007. 10. Turchin V. Prizrachnoe… nepolnoe bytie. Ob odnoy vazhnoy formal'no-smyslovoy komponente v strukture simvolistskogo obraza // Dukh simvolizma. Russkoe i zapadnoevropeyskoe iskusstvo v kontekste epokhi kontsa XIX – nachala XX veka. – M., 2012. 11. Merezhkovskiy D. S. Stikhotvoreniya i poemy / Vstupitel'naya stat'ya, sostavlenie, podgotovka teksta i primechaniya K. A. Kumpan. Novaya Biblioteka poeta – SPb.: Akademicheskiy proekt, 2000. [Elektronnyy resurs]. – URL: http://merezhkovsky.ru/lib/poetry/konets-veka.html (data obrashcheniya 16.12.13). 12. Magun A.V. K istokam mrachnykh chuvstv. Negativnaya affektatsiya mezhdu melankholiey i terrorizmom // Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie. NEPRIKOSNOVENNYY ZAPAS. – 3/2013. – № 89. [Elektronnyy resurs]. – URL: http://www.nlobooks.ru/node/3729 (data obrashcheniya 16.12.13). 13. Man'kovskaya N.B. Esteticheskoe kredo frantsuzskogo simvolizma // Estetika: Vchera. Segodnya. Vsegda. – Vyp. 5. – M. – 2012. – S.20-39. 14. Gurevich P.S. Psikhoanaliz lichnosti. − M. − 2011. 15. Gyuismans Zh.K. Sobranie sochineniy:V 3 t. T.1 – M., 2010. 16. Mallarme S. O literaturnoy evolyutsii (interv'yu) (1891) // Poeziya frantsuzskogo simvolizma. Lotreamon. Pesni Mal'dorora / Pod red. G.K. Kosikova. – M. – 1993. 17. Kristeva Yu. Chernoe solntse: Depressiya i melankholiya. – M. – 2010. 18. Gugo F. Struktura sovremennoy liriki. Ot Bodlera do serediny dvadtsatogo stoletiya / Per. s nem. i komment. E.V.Golovina. – M. – 2010. 19. Budraytskis I., Galkina A. Revolyutsionnaya melankholiya // Khudozhestvennyy zhurnal. – 2010. – № 75-76. [Elektronnyy resurs]. – URL: http://xz.gif.ru/numbers/75-76/revol-mel/ (data obrashcheniya 16.12.13). 20. Bryusov V. Sobranie sochineniy. V 7-mi tomakh. T. VI. – M., 1975. 21. Ben'yamin V. O nekotorykh motivakh u Bodlera (otryvok). Pred. i per. s nem. A.Maguna // Siniy divan. – 2001. – №1. – S. 107-122. 22. N. A. Khrenov. Simvolizm v istorii stanovleniya al'ternativnoy kul'tury. // Kul'tura i iskusstvo.-2012.-№ 5.-C. 82-95.

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