Kalantaievska H. P., Obelchak Y. S. Phobias as part of the inner world of a woman in prose of Yevheniia Kononenko

Abstract

The article deals with phobias as part of the inner world where the heroine of short stories of
Y.Kononenko – a Ukrainian woman with post-colonial conscience lives and asserts herself. It considers the influence of atmosphere of fear and
anxiety on behavior and value preferences of middle-aged woman; attention is also paid to her psycho-emotional state as an indicator of the
individual traits of the personality.