AN ALLUSION TO "THE INTERNAL STRUGGLE" IN THE CONTEXT OF A NOVEL BY GEORGIAN PROSE WRITERS SHIO ARAGVISPIRELI AND NIKO LORTKIPANIDZE

Abstract

The source of the writer's creativity – reality - often brings to light moral and ethical issues that commonly emerge in extreme situations, where the physiological and spiritual needs of an individual intersect. The mentioned issues have appeared in Georgian literature since ancient times, even at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, amidst the challenging socio-political situation prevailing in the country, in the novels of Shio Aragvispireli ("Stand up, he has Arrived") and Niko Lortkifanidze ("A Tragedy without a Hero") created at the end of the 19th century and the 1920s. The purpose of the article is to evaluate, in a new way, the cognitive processes of the characters in these two novels through the lens of humanistic psychology, specifically A. Maslow's principles. This evaluation is based on an alternative form of creation termed the "The Internal Struggle" dilemma. In the article, according to Maslow's hierarchy of needs, at „The Lowest Level“, there is a physiological need (hunger) and a high moral dilemma (Duty to Children or Getting Food by Manslaughtering”). If, in the opinion of the researchers (which was determined partly by the conflict between the flesh and the soul), our research is precisely analysis and conclusions based on Maslow's model.