Summary:
In the present study, is an approach to reach the phenomenon of Karyotakis, the person- key and typical representative of melancholy in the art of poetry. The special conditions under which the poet interacted with the environment sometimes inspired him to use them creatively, which is why he left behind three poetry collections, and sometimes they immobilized him and made him unable to manage his emotions. The psychoanalysis of Sigmund Freud and Julia Kristeva and the philosophical considerations of Jacques Derrida shed light on the hidden symbols that Karyotakis has given in his poetic work as they find ground in the case of the poet. While his lifetime is passing by and after his suicide, he is mentally and socially stigmatized, and this has an affection in his writing and in the style of his poetry collections. From the poetic book the pain of the human and the things, to the Nepenthe and the Elegy and Satires, he transformed from a romantic, to a neo-symbolist, realist in a uniquely his own way. He persuaded his generation and the following one to embrace the motif of melancholy given in a way of social opposition. Afterwards, both the reader and the author of the present study, have the sense of diving into the blurred waters of psychoanalysis, reaching certain points (verses, stanzas), facing his reflection in a mirror that until then seems like hidden under a cloth.
Keywords:
Keywords: Melancholy, Mourning, Resignation, Escape, Oblivion, K.G. Karyotakis.
