The anthropogonic myth of the avant-garde and poetic automethaphors
- DOI
- 10.5922/vestnikpsy-2026-3-8
- Pages
- 75-85
Abstract
The article presents an attempt to interpret certain aspects of the anthropogonic myth of the Russian avant-garde as realized at the level of metaphorical structures of avant-garde poetic texts. The study employs the analytical framework of the cognitive theory of metaphor; a corpus of anthropocentric metaphors is analyzed in detail, with particular attention paid to autometaphors (metaphors with a central I-component). Two approaches to metaphorizing the image of the subject (I), most frequently realized in avant-garde poetic texts, are examined: through correlation with components of the mental sphere (phenomena of consciousness / the unconscious) and through identification with the world (or a fragment / component of the world). Based on the results of the study, structural models of metaphors relevant for describing I-centered avant-garde poetic texts are constructed: “consciousness is I,” “product of consciousness (thought) is I,” “product of the unconscious (emotion) is I,” “space of the world is I,” “material of the world is I,” “component of the world is I.” The article also formulates conclusions concerning the specific features of the anthropogonic (autoanthropogonic) myth of the avant-garde constructed through the use of autometaphors. Its most prominent characteristics include the reflexive nature of the authorial I, the diffuseness of the boundaries of the I, and the wide variability of the manifestations of the I within the space of poetic texts.