Yuliia Karpets is a Ph.D. student at the National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.” Her research focuses on the phenomenon of “groundlessness” in the prose of Mykola Khvylovyi and Viktor Domontovych. The research interests include post-structuralist and psychoanalytic approaches to writing, French literature of the 20th century, and the Ukrainian literary process during the 20th century.