Psychohistorical Aspects of Image and Symbolic Oppositions in Lesya Ukrainka's Dramatic Poem «Boyarynya»

Abstract

The purpose of the scientific article is to try to study a very complex problem
related to figurative, historical, psychological oppositions of two relatively close and
at the same time distant, even contradictory Slavic cultures - ie Ukrainian (European)
and Russian (it is a hybrid, Euro-Asian, ie it has mixed features).
Research methods and techniques – psychoanalysis, psychohistorical project
of development of Ukrainian literature, which allows the perception of each culture
as unique, and this is in the historical dramatic poem by Lesya Ukrainka "Boyarin"
shifted and motivated by aggression, expansion of Moscow, an attempt at aggressive
policy. Ukrainian Cossack, centurion, and later - Moscow boyars.
Research results. The article substantiates the motives of moral and ethical
and psychohistorical confrontations, which are not traditional age or family
confrontations, as depicted in the socio-domestic novel "The Kaidashev Family" by
Ivan Nechuy-Levytsky or in the socio-psychological novel, where the author is Panas
Mirnyi. These oppositions consistently follow from socio-political and culturalhistorical oppositions.
Conclusions. It is clear that the author clearly points to the tragic geopolitical
situation in Ukraine - it is a large territory, attractive for conquest. Ukraine's neighbor
has a different cultural and religious orientation towards Asia. The writer points to
the significant political maneuvers of the hetmans of the Ruin era, to the historical
context of the political struggles of tsarist and boyar Moscow. Moscow's course was
aimed at destroying the hetman's Cossack Ukraine. Oksana Perebyina understood this
well - this is what destroys her physically. The intellect of the Ukrainian woman is
sensitive to the tragedy of the homeland, it is reflected phenomenally in the modernist
dramatic poem "Boyarynya" by Lesya Ukrainka