

The article hypothesizes that the characters in both novels are unable to liberate themselves from their traumatic pasts because they become victims of their own. It is assumed that the central factor in determining the character s psychological dynamic is the reaction to damaging events and an attempt to escape psychological traumas: the recreation of individual integrity is possible through psychodrama, which reenacts the traumatic experience within a safe environment. This analysis is based on the statutes of Carl Gustav Jung's psychoanalytic theory. The main characters in these novels experience physical and psychological, individual and collective, childhood and historic traumas. ENThis article examines the creation of characters with traumatized personalities in novels by Antanas Škėma and Ričardas Gavelis.
