The Symptoms of the Character. Case Study: Leiba Zibal

Abstract

This paper proposes interpreting some aspects of Caragiale’s work using a psychological and traumatological grid. In the first part, we discussed Jungian concepts of shadow and persona, which are applicable to the drama. Part two focuses on An Easter Torch novel, sketching Leiba Zibal experienced traumatic situation and its consequences. The symptoms occur in fictional characters rendered in literary techniques of great finesse, at the boundary between tragic and grotesque, it is a real clinical picture of mental disorganization caused by trauma, fear, anxiety neurosis.