VNÚTORNÉ OBRAZY U KRESŤANSKÝCH MYSTIKOV. LITERÁRNO-SÉMANTICKÁ CHARAKTERISTIKA

The study offers a literary-semantic characteristic of the interior image in the writings of Christian or Roman Catholic mystics. The start point are several poetics which, from the point of view of literary-historical and cultural development, hold a relevant position their national literatures, but at the same time take part in the formation of a supra-national, universal, artistic mystical language, demonstrating – as seen in religionist approaches (e.g., M. Eliade) – several parallel and interior relations with mystical experiences in other religions. We understand the interior image as an image created in the consciousness of the mystic during a contemplative state and which the author later seeks to express in his work through language in a way that would preserve the semantic-value identity of the “seen”. It is the result of a so-called imaginative vision, and therefore has an analogic character: it is impossible to decode it literally, straightforwardly or without the knowledge of symbolic-connotative paradigm of Christianity and its imagination of the world.