Novels are literary works and contain many psychological elements. Analyzing the attitudes of the characters, reflecting them, depicting their life frame and experiences are among the most important ...features of the novels. At this point, it is not surprising that there is a relationship between novels and psychology. In this study, it was aimed to examine the work named “Oblomov” in terms of reality therapy in order to show the use of novel in psychological counseling and guidance education. Reality therapy is based on the necessity of taking responsibility and the choices individuals make throughout their lives. Basic requirement, choice and responsibility, quality world-picture album, being here and now, successful and failure identity, etc. concepts constitute some of the basic concepts of reality therapy. The study was carried out with an analytical research model. In addition to being among the important classics of World Literature, the novel discussed in this study can be examined in terms of reality therapy because it deals with a character that has never met the need for freedom, does not value himself, and has difficulty in fulfilling his duties in life. This research has shown that the novel "Oblomov" can be used as an additional resource to understand the concepts of reality therapy and to illustrate the concepts.
Novels are literary works and contain many psychological elements. Analyzing the attitudes of the characters, reflecting them, depicting their life frame and experiences are among the most important ...features of the novels. At this point, it is not surprising that there is a relationship between novels and psychology. In this study, it was aimed to examine the work named “Oblomov” in terms of reality therapy in order to show the use of novel in psychological counseling and guidance education. Reality therapy is based on the necessity of taking responsibility and the choices individuals make throughout their lives. Basic requirement, choice and responsibility, quality world-picture album, being here and now, successful and failure identity, etc. concepts constitute some of the basic concepts of reality therapy. The study was carried out with an analytical research model. In addition to being among the important classics of World Literature, the novel discussed in this study can be examined in terms of reality therapy because it deals with a character that has never met the need for freedom, does not value himself, and has difficulty in fulfilling his duties in life. This research has shown that the novel "Oblomov" can be used as an additional resource to understand the concepts of reality therapy and to illustrate the concepts.
The novel “Oblomov” is one of the most important works of the 19th century and is rightfully considered as Ivan Goncharov’s masterpiece. There is a sharp criticism of the contemporary Russian society ...in the main character of the story, Ilya Oblomov. Similar motives are reflected in Turkish literature. The main character of Goncharov turns out to be similar to the heroes of Turkish literature in the context of his biography, lifestyle and character traits. Thus, the author of the article, using a common literary typology, brings together the unique works of Russian and Turkish literature.
Eine Rezension des Werkes: Tashinskiy, Aleksey (2018): Literarische Übersetzung als Universum der Differenz. Mit einer analytischen Studie zu deutschen Übersetzungen des Romans Oblomov von I. A. ...Gončarov. Berlin: Frank & Timme.
Nikolai Dobroliubov’s and Dmitrii Pisarev’s reviews of Ivan Goncharov’s novel Oblomov have gone into history as exemplars of Russian civic criticism. Their main argument centers on the eponymous ...protagonist’s seeming inability to exit his lethargic condition, which they interpret as a symptom of the Russian status quo at the time of the Great Reforms. In the present article, I argue that the case of Oblomov demonstrates the limits of the civics’ mimetic criticism. The dominant chronotope of the novel, namely the idyll, indicates that Oblomov is not in essence a novel about the hero’s inability to change (which would presuppose a willingness to, or desire for, said change), but rather about his longing for a restorative past which is ultimately inaccessible to him.
Oblomov and Myshkin: Some Aspects of the Issue Belyaeva, Irina A.
Vestnik Rossijskogo universiteta družby narodov. Seriâ Literaturovedenie, žurnalistika,
12/2021, Volume:
26, Issue:
3
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Open access
The article examines one of the possible parallels between the protagonists of the novels Oblomov and The Idiot , which was formulated by Dostoevsky himself. He pointed out both the similarities ...between Myshkin and Oblomov and the differences between the two. The purpose of the article is to explain the special status of the characters of Dostoevsky and Goncharov, which is linked to their explicit or implicit desire to save the world. The task is to systematize various views of scholars on the issue of Dostoevsky and Goncharov, especially in the light of their relation to the Russian spiritual tradition. The thesis is put forward that the similarity between the two protagonists may be explained by the similarity of the two authors views on the problem of secular holiness. In both novels similar versions of the plot of salvation are realized, in which the protagonist claims to be the savior of others, although another motif, that of personal salvation, is emphasized by Goncharov in Oblomov and has Dante origins. While in the case of Myshkin his wish to be Christ-alike lead him to a personal catastrophe, and the destruction of his inner circle, in Oblomovs case there are no such losses, there are even some advantages in the form of the emerging life of Shtolz and Olga, in the form of awakening to a new life of Agafia Matveevna Pshenitsyna. The author of the article comes to the conclusion that both Dostoevsky and Goncharov did not forget about the human nature of their characters, but the former, as Goncharov put it, allowed his Myshkin, Prince Christ, to wear a divine robe and thus largely predetermined his failure as a savior, while the latter alleviated the traits of holiness in his Oblomov, leaving only traces of them, which attract people to the character making them and their small world better.
Novels are literary works and contain many psychological elements. Analyzing the attitudes of the characters, reflecting them, depicting their life frame and experiences are among the most important ...features of the novels. At this point, it is not surprising that there is a relationship between novels and psychology. In this study, it was aimed to examine the work named “Oblomov” in terms of reality therapy in order to show the use of novel in psychological counseling and guidance education. Reality therapy is based on the necessity of taking responsibility and the choices individuals make throughout their lives. Basic requirement, choice and responsibility, quality world-picture album, being here and now, successful and failure identity, etc. concepts constitute some of the basic concepts of reality therapy. The study was carried out with an analytical research model. In addition to being among the important classics of World Literature, the novel discussed in this study can be examined in terms of reality therapy because it deals with a character that has never met the need for freedom, does not value himself, and has difficulty in fulfilling his duties in life. This research has shown that the novel "Oblomov" can be used as an additional resource to understand the concepts of reality therapy and to illustrate the concepts.
S’il faut évidemment se méfier des raccourcis, des inférences et des généralisations, force est de constater que la littérature peut offrir des éclairages singuliers sur des troubles du caractère et ...de la personnalité voire même s’aventurer parfois dans une description subtile et inattendue d’une unité syndromique plus complexe ou d’un modèle psychopathologique qui nous est familier. I. Gontcharov, à travers son personnage d’Oblomov, nous permet de revisiter le concept de psychasthénie décrit par Pierre Janet en 1903. Disciple de Th. Ribot, auquel il succédera à la chaire de psychologie expérimentale et comparée du Collège de France, contemporain de Freud avec lequel il s’opposera sur la manière de « penser la névrose » (en termes de conflit chez l’un, de déficit chez l’autre), P. Janet développera également le concept de subconscient. Son ouvrage Obsessions et psychasthénie est le premier à donner une description claire et cohérente des obsessions-compulsions et à proposer une thérapeutique psychologique originale ainsi qu’un modèle psychologique explicatif. Qu’il nous soit permis ici de lui rendre hommage. Au-delà des vertus thérapeutiques incontestables de la littérature, on cherchera à savoir comment le roman peut aider le clinicien à mieux appréhender un concept, une époque voire même étayer une hypothèse diagnostique.
Nous envisagerons la fiction littéraire comme une ouverture sur un monde parallèle, celui de la clinique psychiatrique, actualisé par l’activité du lecteur, ses souvenirs, ses références, sa subjectivité. Par une analyse comparative, une sorte de mise en abyme entre d’un côté l’histoire de vie du personnage (Oblomov) et la réactivation de critères diagnostiques plus opérationnels de l’autre, nous tenterons de faire ressurgir un concept fondateur de notre discipline.
On voit progressivement se dévoiler une clinique psychiatrique extrêmement fine (la psychasthénie) qui se verra authentifiée par les descriptions classiques que nous connaissons.
Se pose ici la question de la place que le roman réserve aux troubles psychiques. À travers une représentation empathique et nuancée des maladies mentales, il donne à voir de l’intérieur toute leur complexité, à l’aune de normes qui évoluent dans le temps, reflets d’une époque et d’une société données.
La littérature réfléchit la « folie » (en tant qu’objet social et culturel), au sens où, elle la reflète et permet de la re-penser.
It is essential to distrust shortcuts, inferences, and generalizations, but it must be noted that literature can offer unique explanations about personality disorders or often even delve into a subtle, unexpected description of a more complex syndromic case or psychopathological model that we are familiar with. I. Goncharov, through the character of Oblomov, allows us to revisit the concept of psychasthenia that Pierre Janet described in 1903. As a disciple of T. Ribot, who he would follow as chair of experimental and comparative psychology at the College de France, and as a contemporary of Freud, with whom he disagreed on the way of “thinking about neurosis” (in terms of conflict for one, and in terms of deficit for the other), P. Janet would also develop the idea of the subconscious. His work, “Obsessions and Psychasthenia” was the first to describe obsessions and compulsions clearly and coherently, and to put forward the idea of an original psychological therapy, as well as an explanatory model. I hereby wish to pay tribute to him. Over and above the indisputable therapeutic virtues of literature, I seek to know how a novel can help the clinician to better understand a concept, an era, or even support a diagnostic hypothesis.
We shall consider literary fiction as an opening onto a parallel world, the realm of the psychiatric, updated by a reader's activity, memories, references, and subjectivity. Through a comparative analysis, a sort of meta-theater between the life story of the main character (Oblomov) and the reactivation of more operational diagnostic criteria, I shall try to bring a founding concept of our discipline to light.
An extremely subtle psychiatric state (in this case psychasthenia) gradually becomes perceptible, one that will be authenticated using the conventional descriptions that we know.
This raises the question of the place that the novel reserves for mental disorders. Through an empathetic and nuanced representation of mental illnesses, it makes all their complexity perceptible from the inside, in the light of standards that evolve over time, reflections of the given era and society.
Literature allows us to reflect upon “madness” (as a social and cultural object), in the sense that the former reflects the latter, thereby allowing us to reconsider it.
The article is devoted to the analysis of the artistic functions of the image of newspaper in the novel by I. A. Goncharov Oblomov and the comprehension of moral and philosophical results of the ...confrontation of protagonist with the profane information challenges of the external environment. Particular attention is paid to the semantic content of the Oblomov paradigm – the information world, interpreted taking into account the rich experience of Goncharov's work in the newspaper editorial field. The author of the article proves that one of the central tenets in the moral and philosophical concept of the writer is the preservation of humanity. The dialogues of heroes and the clash of their positions show that humanity in Oblomov's understanding echoes the corresponding understanding of it by Goncharov, revealing the complex and multifaceted worldview of the writer. The study outlines the evolution of attitudes towards the information model in Russian classical literature and examines the issue of the proportionality between external inertia and internal dynamics characteristic of Ilya Ilyich Oblomov. A hypothesis is put forward about the intense spiritual life of Oblomov, the expediency of pronouncing the name of Pushkin by the protagonist is deciphered.
Goncharov in the Twenty-First Century brings together a
range of international scholars for a reexamination of Ivan
Goncharov's life and work through a twenty-first century critical
lens. ...Contributions to the volume highlight Goncharov's service
career, the complex and understudied manifestation of Realism in
his work, the diverse philosophical threads that shape his novels,
and the often colliding contexts of writer and imperial bureaucrat
in the 1858 travel text Frigate Pallada . Chapters engage
with approaches from post-colonial and queer studies, theories of
genre and the novel, desire, laughter, technology, and mobility and
travel.
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