Psychological Lexicon Expressing Women’s Inner Experiences In Zweig’s Novellas: German Lexical Units And Uzbek Translation Solutions

Stefan Zweig’s novellas are frequently described as “psychological prose” because inner experience is not treated as a background to action but as the core dramatic material. In texts centered on women’s perspectives or women’s crises—such as Brief einer Unbekannten (1922), Angst (1925), and Vierundzwanzig Stunden aus dem Leben einer Frau (1927)—the reader encounters a dense network of lexical choices that encode fear, shame, desire, self-doubt, and memory as embodied, time-sensitive states. This article examines the psychological lexicon that verbalizes women’s inner experiences in these three novellas and outlines Uzbek translation solutions for key German units and constructions. The study uses a qualitative contrastive approach: psychologically marked nouns, verbs, adjectives, and idiomatic patterns are identified in the German originals and then mapped to Uzbek equivalents through functional-semantic analysis with attention to intensity, connotation, and stylistic rhythm. The analysis demonstrates that Zweig repeatedly relies on (a) “seizing” metaphors of affect, where emotions act upon the body, (b) somatic vocabulary that turns mental states into physiological events, (c) gradation and suddenness markers that dramatize micro-shifts of consciousness, and (d) confessional syntax that reproduces the tempo of obsessive recollection. For Uzbek, the most stable solutions emerge when translators preserve the embodied logic of the German phrase (e.g., fear as an external force) while calibrating intensity through Uzbek gradation resources (vahima, dahshat, qo‘rquv) and compensating for German modal particles via discourse markers and syntactic emphasis. The article argues that successful Uzbek renderings require not “one-to-one” replacement but a controlled system of equivalence, modulation, and explicitation that maintains the psychological contour of the female voice.