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When Sylvia Plath and the Holocaust are considered in tandem a perplexing confluence of imperatives and denials comes into being. This is especially apparent in discussions concerning her eligibility to write of the Holocaust and the disturbance about the forms that Holocaust writing takes. The criticism of Plath's Holocaust poems is especially inclined to discover the unacceptableappropriation of a metaphor to which she has not established any rights. Attempts to show that the Holocaust metaphor was not used opportunistically or gratuitously as Plath approached the end of her life, but that her developmentof subject matter and metaphor became increasingly expressive of the coincident territory occupied by the private and the public. (Original abstract - amended)

The opposition between the Hughes family and the radical feminists led to the emergence of two diametrically opposite Plath myths: a mentally disturbed, manipulative woman, unstoppably driven towards suicide, or an innocent victim of a treacherous husband? Both sides interpret Plath's life and works in view of her untimely death, neglecting the underlying life force that pervades her poetry and prose. Relying on the psychoanalytical theory of instincts, the author shows how Eros complements and even makes use of Thanatos on different levels of Plath's writing: on the level of language asa meaningful structure, on the level of meaning, and in the function of language as therapy. The duality of instics is particulary evident in Sloveirian criticism; where the physicar and temporal distance from political scandal enabled the development oftwo distinct critical currents: one following Hughes's morbid determinism, the other concentrating on Plath's intelligence and joyful observation of nature. ; Nasprotja med radikalnimi feministkami in družino Teda Hughesa so v zadnjih desetletjih privedla do dveh diametralno nasprotnih mitov o Sylviji Plath: na eni strani podoba mučenice v patriarhalni družbi, na drugi podoba duševno motene ženske z neustavljivim gonom smrti. Obe interpretaciji življenja in dela pesnice se osredotocata predvsem na njeno zgodnjo smrt, pri tem pa zanemarjata gonilno življenjsko silo, ki prežema njeno poezijo. Clanek s pomoejo psihoanaliticne teorije izpostavi prevlado Erosa nad Tanatosom v življenju in poeziji Sylvije Plath, tako na ravni jezika kot strukture kot na pomenski ravni. Slovenska literarna kritika zaradi fizicne oddaljenosti in casovnega odmika od škandalov bolj pristno odseva dvojnost Erosa in Tanatosa v pesnicinih delih. Razvila sta se dva razlocna tokova, od katerih prvi sledi morbidnemu determinizmu Teda Hughesa, drugi pa se uspe oddaljiti od nesrecnih okolišcin njene smrti in se osredotoci na inteligenco in radost mlade žene in matere.

Sylvia Plath: un fantasma de la cultura