TEMPLE AND TRANSFORMATION WITHIN MYTHOLOGICAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL THOUGHT OF MIODRAG PAVLOVIĆ

Abstract

This study focuses on certain essays by Miodrag Pavlović from his book Temple and Transformation, which is a product of the same kind of spiritual inspiration and interest as The Diary of Foam (1972),  A Speech about Nothing (1987),  and Poetics of the Ritual of Sacrifice (1987).  In these works, the author develops and upgrades the line of essayistic thought which is directed towards the realms of ritual and myth, as well as the symbolic significance of temple for man’s spiritual transfiguration. These essayistic features of Pavlović gravitate towards the very source of man’s linguistic, cultural, historical and religious being, a tendency which in different creative shapes and formats also characterizes his poetic opus. Therefore, this paper aims to point out at the competence of Pavlović’s essayistic thought and its poetic sociological and philosophical religious orientation, which at the same time clearly corresponds to his poetry.