Evil Representations of Water

Water represented as a natural element contains two meanings of good and evil. From the perspective of representing water as the abode of evil, this is interpreted as a veritable descent into hell, as a psychological representation, immersion in water is in some cases the equivalent of probing the unconscious. We propose to elucidate the negative valences of water and its imaginary representations starting from Mircea Eliade’s work „Isabel and the waters of the devil”, Radu Găvan „Fragile devils”, Alexandru Popescu „Colorless depths” and the concept of „Ophelia’s complex” from the work of Gaston Bachelard. These works activate the negative approaches of water from the inner conflicts of the character to the element of water, the destructive force.