Problems of ecology of personality as a subject of a literary text (based on the material of N. Verevochkin’s novel Mammoth Tooth. Chronicle of the Dead City)

Abstract

This article is devoted to an actual interdisciplinary problem - the ecology of personality
in the context of the literary approach. Personal ecology, which studies the phenomenon of individual
mental structure, is currently developing in several directions - from pan-ecological, when an individual
is comprehended as part of the environment, to psychological, when his unique personal characteristics
participate in the flow of subjective interactional processes. Literature can also become material for the
study of this phenomenon. A literary text, whose subject organization is data for analysis, provides us with
types of personalities that it is advisable to study from the point of view of personal ecology. In this work,
we tried to demonstrate this using the example of a postmodern text - N. Verevochkin’s work Mammoth’s
Tooth. Chronicle of the Dead City. The protagonist of the novel is a classic example of a deficient personality
who overcomes his own negative attitudes in the context of a new social environment for himself. Using
the method of mythopoetic analysis and psychological commentary, we came to the conclusion that the
hero of modern Kazakhstani prose is a person with a disturbed internal ecology, which can be restored
only by certain circumstances (explicated by us at the level of the plot).