Hệ biểu tượng trong Con nhân mã ở trong vườn của Moacyr Scliar dưới ánh sáng phân tâm học

Abstract

Moacyr Jaime Scliar (1917 - 2011) was a well-known Latin American writer, whose works focus on the issues of Jewish identity and especially on Jews in Brazil. “The Centaur in the Garden” is his most famous novel. There are many ways to explore this unique work in depth, among which studying the symbolic system in the work from a psychoanalytic perspective is a suggestion on how to read Moacyr Scliar's novel in particular, the works of Magical Realism in general. The symbolic system in “The Centaur in the Garden”, if viewed from a psychoanalytic perspective, corresponds to the life experienced by young centaur Guedali, which is very similar to the sequence of three levels: id, ego and superego in the human mental structure. Through the struggle between instinct and reason along with the main character's journey to find the ego, the work has shown the desire to accept the shortcomings of the being in order to integrate into the community as well as into the man's undying desire for freedom.