Nazbilj and nahvao as Anticipations of Pshychoanalitical Categories

Most of Držić’s reception regarding the basic categories nazbilj* and nahvao*, was orientated towards finding the Renaissance, humanistic-philosophical premisses of their articulation. By taking into consideration socio-historic insights and insight into the history of art, this approach needs no further affirmation. However, if we focus on the moment of making firm psychological profiles, especially with the protagonists of Dundo Maroje, the text of the comedy itself gives us numerous interpretational nodes which indicate, in some places, the brilliant anticipation of the basic psychoanalitical categories, in the same way as presented in Freud’s works. Although the nazbilj-nahvao distinction, unlike Freud’s tripple analytical operationalization on Id, Ego and SuperEgo, is binary in its structure, with its explanatory range it completely covers the dynamic pshychoanalytical system devided into the three afore mentioned segments. In light of new, naturalistic revisions of Freud’s basic theories, Držić’s psychological intuition seems all the more fascinating. Through the paper I will firstly identify the key points of said expectations, and then highlight their concordance to the psychoanalytical concept of self. I believe that with this explanatory approach, the interpretational platform broaching Držić’s work would be expanded, which would bring attention to the progressive complexity of his literary opus. * These are terms for describing two kinds of people that Držić uses in his comedy Dundo Maroje. Nazbilj people are truthful and honest people, moral heroes, while nahvao people are those who are hypocrites, phonies and greedy people