Review: Being one of the most mysterious heroes in Goethe’s Faust, Euphorion becomes clear if we look at him from the point of view of the main theme of this book, - a birth of a perfect human. In such a case, Euphorion appears to be not only the symbol of poetry, but also a spirit who left the earth and the feminine nature behind him. He is some kind of Homunculus and one of the negative alter-ego of Faust.

Keywords: philology, Goethe, Byron, personality, Euphorion poetry, romanticism, classicism, feminity, alchemistry.

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1. Vasil'eva T.V. Elena Prekrasnaya // Vasil'eva T.V. Kommentarii k kursu istorii antichnoy filosofii. M.,
2002.
2. Gete I.V. Faust. Tragediya / Per. A.L. Sokolovskogo. M., 2007.
3. Zelinskiy F.F. Elena Prekrasnaya // Zelinskiy F.F. Iz zhizni idey. V chetyrekh tt. T. 3. Soperniki khristi-
anstva M., 1995.
4. Kazakova I.B. Kosmologiya Yakoba Beme i khudozhestvennyy mir «Fausta» // Getevskie chteniya 2003. M., 2003.
5. Levina L.M. Obraz Eleny v «Fauste» Gete // Getevskie chteniya 1999. M., 1999.
6. Mityushin A.A. Uchenie Gete o prirode geniya // Filosofiya iskusstva v proshlom i nastoyashchem. M., 1981.
7. Mikhaylov A.V. Gete i otrazhenie antichnosti v nemetskoy kul'ture na rubezhe XVIII-XIX vekov // Mikhay-
lov A.V. Yazyki kul'tury. M., 1997.
8. Motorina M.V., Shmakova O.V. Vechnaya zhenstvennost' v faustianskoy kontseptsii I.V. Gete // Sotsiokul'tur-
nye issledovaniya. 1999. № 5.
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16. Yung K.G. Psikhologiya i alkhimiya. M., 2008.
17. Gray R. Goethe alchemist. Cambr., 1952.

Review: The ‘Maids’ story has many layers: legal, patographic, dramatic. The criminal story about Papen’s sisters became the material not only for a number of journalistic investigation and social debates Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Paul Eluard participated in, but also provided the basis for the most popular Jean Genet’s play and Jacques Lacan’s book about paranoia (1933). Psychic, social, sexual roots of the crime, murderer as an esthetic event and spectacular pleasure, paranoia leading to the collapse of the subjectivity and delirium as an attempt to cure, - the ‘Maids’ story is made up of numerous discourses and points of views the director just ought to take into account. Nothing to say about the fact that the ‘Maids’ have been staged so many times (even by Peter Bengtson in his opera) that it is almost impossible to show this story in a new light.

Keywords: philology, dramaturgy, play, Lacan, sexuality, projection, specularity, identification, female, male, deceit of expectations.