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In the last ten years in France, among university literary scholars, there has been a clear interest in the so-called "thematic study" of a given author's work. Moreover, the proportional number of works devoted to thematic analyses is so large that it could be rightly said that they have recently become a fashion in literary studies. This direction in literary criticism was given by Professor Charles Moron, who in his work, Introduction to Psychocriticism (1938) developed the thesis that every artist is a visionary who enchants the reader with his own special, personal world, filled with strange visions, images and pictures, always the same in the different works of the artist, which came unconsciously, but insistently intruding on his consciousness, as well as on the consciousness of the reader. This peculiar personal mythology of the artist can precisely explain the impact of the work, an impact that can hardly be understood if we are satisfied only with the external meaning of the work. The task of the researcher, according to Moron, consists in revealing this personal mythology, the secret structure, the system of symbols that a given author uses involuntarily and unconsciously, or in other words, in determining the constant dominant themes in the work. He believes that by solving this task, one can also arrive at solving one of the main problems in The psychology of art - the problem of the genesis of artistic creativity.