INNOCENCE OF THE COUNTRY IN THE SELECTED PLAYS OF IVAN VIDI？ AND LADA KA？TELAN

Sa？etak The paper focuses on the correlation between the phenomenon of the country and ‘self’, interpreted in different ways in the selected plays of Lada Ka？telan and Ivan Vidi？, relying upon theoreticians and philosophers who deal with ？habitat？ (G. Bachelard), as well as with ？home？, relationship between a personal and social system (N. Luhmann) and with the impression of ？ours？ and ？foreign？ (U. Bielefeld), ？other？ and different (D. Caroll). In this respect arise the issues of ideal as defense from existential fear, and correlation of events and fiction (thanks to the idea of a ？foreign？ it becomes clear how the ？reality？ and fiction do not create opposition). Vidi？ and Ka？telan open the same subjects, approaching them in almost opposite ways. If we accept the thesis that a subject is split within himself, and therefore permanently aims at the ？original？, ？innocent state of the soul？ it is possible to notice how, in Ka？telan’s plays we can identify a dominant process of subjectivization (attempt to persuade the co-speaker to exteriorize his carefully hidden ？self？, and in Vidi？’s works the process of objectivization (M. Bahtin). Objectivization is a monological position, thanks to which one tries to reduce his co-speaker to a pre-set structure of generally valid fact. Vidi？ writes precisely about the processes of objectivization. Through objectivization we try to speak of him or her, rather than with him, we try to see our co-speaker as an object of a future manipulation. However, paradoxically enough, this way Vidi？-the writer acts with the aim to open up that carefully hidden ？self？ in his viewer, the Shadow, the ？foreigner？ within himself