The nature of an author-creator as a source of literary similarities

The article deals with typological commonalities, which are important concepts of comparative literature. Common phenomena found in literatures that do not have mutual contact relations on the basis of the typological area. Contact-genetic relations mainly refer to the study of interrelated literary phenomena, while typological similarities study general literary phenomena. The importance of typological researches is that these researches provide an opportunity to discover universal literary laws, scientific study of literary phenomena characteristic of the literature of all nations, as well as individual characteristics. According to D.Dyurishin’s classification of typological similarities, there are three types of artistic analogies: social, literary and psychological. Socio-typological similarities take into account the historical period, economic and cultural development and ideological factors occurring in a particular society. Literary-typological commonality is based on purely literary phenomenon. The article focused on psychological typological commonalities. This similarity covers the individual-psychological aspects of the creator’s personality. More attention is paid to the psychology of creativity. The commonality in the literary phenomenon is explained by the spiritual closeness in the nature of the authors. The purpose of this study is to analyze the relationship between psychological typological features and personality. The author of the article supports the study of psychological typological similarities in connection with the nature of creators, in particular, Carl Jung‘s theory of mental types. Jung classifies individuals into extrovert and introvert types according to the object of their attitude to the external environment and direction of mental energy in the work “Psychological Types”. Also, in this, Jung takes into account the leadership of functions such as thinking, feeling, sense and intuition.
The article focused on psychological typological commonalities. According to Jung, belonging to which psychological type is important in the formation of a person’s thinking. Examples from English, American, and Uzbek literature served to prove the ideas presented in the article. In the example of William Wordsworth and Alexander Pope, Blake, and Mashrab, it is explained that the source of closeness in the life and work of poets is related to their nature, belonging to a certain spiritual type. Comparative-typological, biographical, contrastive, and psychological analysis methods were used in the research process. As a result, in the research of psychological typological analogies, it has been determined that taking into account the personality of creators, and to which mental type they belong, opens up new aspects of the creative process.