SIMONA GALAÈšCHI, Researcher
I am a Senior Researcher (3rd degree) at “G. Călinescu” Institute of Literary History and Theory of the Romanian Academy and at the Academy of Romanian Scientists. My work focuses on Romanian literature and popular culture. I do interdisciplinary research using psychoanalytic literary criticism (classical Freudian criticism and post-Freudian criticism), gendered approach, discourse analysis and rhetoric. I am having an experience of over 20 years in editing literary and cultural magazines. Currently, I am in the editorial board of the “The Journal of Literary Theory and History” [“Revista de Istorie È™i Teorie Literară (RITL)] doing the job of a copy editor and a scientific secretary.
The National Colloquium of the Young Literary Critics
11th Annual Edition
.April 21-23, 2017
The International Conference on Social, Political and Humanistic Sciences
4th Annual Edition
May 11-12, 2017
UPCOMING EVENTS
2017 Fall Scientific Meeting of the Academy of Romanian Scientists
October 12-14, 2017
MY LATEST RESEARCH
This volume [When Hortensia Papadat-Bengescu’s “Veil Is Lifted” / Când “se ridică vălul” Hortensiei Papadat-Bengescu] is an interdisciplinary approach envisaging to clarify the problems of literary construction using psychoanalysis. The characters in Hortensiei Papadat-Bengescu’s work are subjected to a critical examination meant to identify the concepts of psychoanalysis in their structure and show the way in which the psychological mechanisms determine the evolution, thought and behavior of these fictional characters. For the first time in our literary exegesis, the characters in a writer’s work (a woman writer in our case) are examined psychoanalytically.
This article [Hypostasis of Self-Realization in Hortensia Papadat-Bengescu's Literature] analyses Manuela, the main character of Hortensia Papadat-Bengescu’s novel The Mirror Facing Woman [Femeia în faÅ£a oglinzei], based on the psychoanalytical method that takes into consideration the principles enunciated in the theories of Jacques Lacan, Carl Gustav Jung and Otto Rank. The analysis gives an interpretation of the facts presented in the novel about this character and sketches the portrait of a self-realized, complete woman as C.G. Jung’s analytical psychology reveals her based on the stages of evolution of the soul further stipulated by Marie-Louise von Franz.