Of course, the image of Pushkin, as a kind of prototype of Lensky: romantic idealist, prone to creative impulses of unprecedented strength, sensitively following the standard of righteousness, purity of thoughts and deeds, is common among connoisseurs of the genius Alexander Sergeyevich. Not aiming at the desecration and blackening of this magnificent faceless theatrical character in the reader’s imagination, with sincere zeal to reveal the true essence and depth of genius through a thorough analysis of his mental currents, reflected in the lines of many of his works, we will carry out the work of humanizing a poet named Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin.
So who are you, Alexander Sergeyevich? Birth and childhood
So, let’s refresh a little bit of the biographical nuances that could shed light on the personality of a non-trivial Russian classic. From these sources we find information about where Pushkin was born and when. Opening any of them, we read: Pushkin was born in Moscow, on the 26th day of the month of May, the year 1799. The house where Pushkin was born did not reach to this day, but its estimated location is known: the then German Street, now 10 Bauman,.
The very knowledge that Pushkin was born in the city of Moscow can describe the poet’s personality very indirectly, unless he emphasizes his love for this city, manifested in all the variety of many warm lines dedicated to him. Without focusing our attention on these details, let us indulge in a further study of the personality of Alexander Sergeyevich.
Childhood. Here we dwell in more detail. Alexander Pushkin, when he was born, was given up for feeding, according to the then fashion, to a serf peasant-nurse,
cares about him were distributed by his parents among numerous nannies. All the childhood of the future poet was spent in the society of educators and teachers, as well as grandmothers from the mama’s side of Maria Alekseevna and the notorious Arina Rodionovna, the nanny of Pushkin, a vivid image of which outlines any textbook of literature.
Parents did not give the children, among whom Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was the eldest son, proper attention, limiting himself to punishing the latter for disobedience. Weasel is the parent in the house where Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was born, was in short supply.
At the same time, being under the age of six, Alexander had already read most of his father’s library, which contained many novels of pornographic and erotic genres by French writers. And the presence at the evenings of poetry of little Sasha Pushkin, often arranged by his daddy Sergey Lvovich, where often not the most decent poems of the boulevard genre were read, were also imprinted in the boy’s emerging consciousness.
Often, biographers give a secondary role to this gentle period of the poet's life. Nevertheless, the very sources of genius are hidden, from the point of view of psychoanalysis, precisely in these years of Pushkin's life. It is here that a tremendous creative potential is formed, requiring an exit and continuous improvement of the instrument for its implementation, namely, the syllable. The lack of maternal love contributes to the development of the remarkable Oedipus complex and narcissism, the hysteria of temperament and neglect of the feminine offended youth.
Years of Lyceum
In the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum, at the age of 12, Pushkin leaves with joyful feelings of getting rid of parental tyranny. Here the first social relations of the boy with his peers, warm friendships and first loves are formed. And here, where Pushkin was born as a poet, he will be overtaken by the excellence of his young years, accompanied by the vigorous activity of vulgar and pornographic poetry dictated by the specifics of this great age. Biographers prefer to mention this aspect of Pushkin’s work in passing.
Numerous epigrams and poems, often riddled with phrases that are incorrect for quoting and explicit obscenities, contrast with the first romantically elevated lines that appear parallel to them.
The last years of the lyceum, marked by the highest degree of freedom that allowed movement outside the educational institution, Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin spends in the society of hussars settled in the Tsarskoye Selo. This society is preferred by the poet over boring evenings of poetry, where the rest of the lyceum students spend their time. Sexual maturation, which has reached perfection, has revealed the remarkable erotic temperament inherited from exotic African ancestors, which has recently led Alexander to frenzy, finally finds its realization. Here the first sensual contacts take place with representatives of the most ancient profession, who also adored the hussar society.
Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin. Portrait of a psychoanalytic
A further biography of Alexander Sergeyevich will be more confused, tied to certain traits of his character, since there are a great many sources of information on this subject. Our task, however, is not a biography, but a description of the personality of the poet through the reconstruction of his internal conflicts, feelings and values.
Examining the poet’s work, his correspondence, biography and characteristics given to him by contemporaries, psychoanalysts painted a colorless, idealized portrait of the great poet. In their opinion, the family where Pushkin was born “gave” him enormous emotional wounds, which became the reason for revealing a poetic gift as a way to get rid of the pain caused by them. Their prosaic terms will be explained in the following text, but for now a pure statement.
Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin is the carrier of the pronounced Oedipus complex. It manifests itself in rivalry with men and reaches
soreness with a thirst for female attention.
Personality type - hysterical: constant mood swings, temper, hypersensitivity, compensated by forgiving cynicism and rudeness, a high level of sexuality, accompanied by erotic aggression, inconsistency in the choice of partners, friends, as well as in attitudes and life positions; narcissism, manifested by high conceit, along with painful self-esteem and attitude to criticism.
This saying is not a fairy tale, the fairy tale will be ahead
It must be repeated that these non-poetic, psychoanalytic dry characteristics cannot be regarded as criticizing the poet or attempting to belittle him in the eyes of the reader. They should be considered in the dynamic general portrait of A.S. Pushkin. Let's do it.
Beloved Alexander Sergeevich
So, according to the testimony of Alexander Sergeyevich's closest friends, the latter did not differ in Christian benefactors. Frantic passions, successfully practiced in brothels, brothels and other evil places, ruled over his whole life and youth in particular. Neither years of exile nor poverty stopped him.
accompanying him almost all his life, not even a
sacred alliance with Natalie Goncharova. With his characteristic hysterical zeal, he indulged in bodily pleasures every divine night. The objects of adoration were quickly bored, replaced by new ones - eternal hunger.
It should be noted that the objects of adoration in Alexander Sergeyevich were divided into two incompatible categories, tearing his poetic consciousness into two parts. If the first type refers to the type of women described above, then the second includes units that could win the poet’s heart. Each of them ascended to heaven, made them cry, encouraged them to write brilliant lines. Pushkin loved with all his heart and, as a supersensitive person, suffered very much, indulging in pain with all pain, if he did not find reciprocity.
But with all this, his feelings were not eternal, as the representatives of the first category could not captivate the poet for a long time. In a letter to his brother, Pushkin, comparing himself with Petrarch, does not find any similarities and writes about his inability to love only one woman.
The tendency of the hysterical personality of A.S. Pushkin to humiliate lovers, which is directly realized in love for women of easy virtue, in the case of women of the upper class is manifested in the disclosure of intimate secrets, contempt for them at the end of the novel, as well as writing cynical and venomous epigrams about them.
Cards
The second passion of the poet was playing cards. Pushkin was a very gambler. His poverty had its origins, rather it was his addiction, rather than the inability to get rich. Alexander Pushkin spent all the fees in the gambling houses, where the twin brother of his lust was born - excitement. With a characteristic lack of a sense of proportion, he indulged in the game entirely. Losing it sometimes amounted to tens of thousands of rubles per night. For the same reasons, he almost never got out of debt.
Appearance
Almost all contemporaries who ever described Pushkin's appearance did not mention his external beauty. Moreover, Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin about himself in a famous verse remarks: "the descendant of blacks is ugly." This phrase is certainly exaggerated, but it has a bit of truth. With the pain characteristic of daffodils, he accepts any hint of his ugliness.
A.S. Pushkin had the following external data: height - 166 centimeters, wide in the shoulders, eyes gray-blue, teeth are snow-white, lips are thick, but the smile is beautiful, the nose is somewhat elongated. In addition, Pushkin wore long, well-groomed nails. The manicure at that time was not yet in fashion, so most often they were compared with animal claws. Nevertheless, nothing made him get rid of his nails, he treasured them very much.
Character
Explosive and changeable, in one minute able to change loud laughter with deep thought - Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin seemed to have several personalities at the same time. The versatility of his emotions had no place in one chest: either one or the other, mastering his thoughts, quickly replaced each other. Other friends noticed in him a kind of infestation of the devil himself: more often cheerful and witty, he could suddenly explode with anger over any trifle, resulting in frequent duels appointed by himself.
He was not afraid of death. In duels, in anticipation of a shot by his opponent, Pushkin smiled cynically, composing the next epigram, indifferently humming something, or at all, as at the time of the Bessarabian exile, eating cherries.
He was sarcastic and cynical, but at the same time childishly playful and cheerful. And again, these two characteristics were replaced by rancor and revenge. Pushkin’s disposition was too multifaceted to fit him in a few lines.
However, this frantic game of contradictions gave rise to his comprehensive inspiration, causing suffering to the poet himself, and this turned into creativity.
Savor
The subject of pride of Alexander Sergeyevich was his aristocratic origin. Any disrespectful mention of the glorious ancestors or doubt of his (Pushkin) nobility immediately caused a storm of indignation on the part of the poet, ending with a duel.
One of Pushkin’s friends once remarked in a letter that the aristocratic society in which he strove to take an equal position, accepted him only as an artist, not as an equal. In addition, having no fortune, it was difficult for him to conquer the high society, and as a poet he was very popular.
Pushkin loved theater, music, social evenings and balls, intellectual conversations and poetry evenings. He was an excellent dancer and a great conversationalist. His
always invited, cherished them as a guest.
Creation
All of Pushkin’s work is divided into two parts, as he himself is. The first is sublime and pompous, glorifying him to the whole world as a great master of the word. The second, according to critics, often withheld from readers, is not aesthetically valuable. We are talking about pornographic poetry and vulgar epigrams. To understand that there is Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin, one cannot exclude them from attention, since to know half of Pushkin’s work means to try to understand half the poet, half man.
In general terms, Pushkin can be characterized not by Lensky's likeness, not by Onegin, but by a duel between them. The eternal duel, where the cynic Onegin always wins over the amorous idealist Lensky. The deadly battle where Pushkin was born again and again ...