Trauminis subjektas Antano Škėmos "Baltoje drobulėje", Ričardo Gavelio "Vilniaus pokeryje"

ENThis article examines the creation of characters with traumatized personalities in novels by Antanas Škėma and Ričardas Gavelis. The main characters in these novels experience physical and psychological, individual and collective, childhood and historic traumas. This analysis is based on the statutes of Carl Gustav Jung's psychoanalytic theory. It is assumed that the central factor in determining the character s psychological dynamic is the reaction to damaging events and an attempt to escape psychological traumas: the recreation of individual integrity is possible through psychodrama, which reenacts the traumatic experience within a safe environment. The article hypothesizes that the characters in both novels are unable to liberate themselves from their traumatic pasts because they become victims of their own. History's, and the world's absurdity. In The White Shroud (written in 1954, published in 1958), the main characters fight for individual freedom and Self leads to insanity - Garšva, who is drowning in self-analysis, loses his orientation in the present.Whereas in Vilniaus pokeris (1989), Vargalys – a hero oppressed by external reality - constantly behaves according to the same behavioural schemes, models, invoked when he experiences traumas, which is why his psychodrama is unsuccessful The article concludes that Škėma was the first to create a traumatic character in Lithuanian literature, while Gavelis, individually and very dramatically, interpreted the problem of psychological and physical trauma - for the first time after several decades of Soviet occupation. Both author's intentions to create traumatic characters is connected to the need for manifesting the individual's search for freedom. Within the context of the novels by Škėma and Gavelis, we read Juozas Grušas play written during the Soviet period, Adomo Brunzos paslaptis [The Secret of Adomas Drunza] (1967), where the traumatic character is only able to choose between betrayal and suicide. [text from author]