The article examines dramatic conflict as a central category of dramatic poetics in its historical-literary and structural-typological dimensions. Using a historical-theoretical and typological approach, it traces the development of the concept from Aristotle and Hegel to Russian literary theory and contemporary postdramatic theatre. The article systematises major forms of dramatic conflict according to source, degree of resolvability, and dramatic form. It argues that classical conflict theory should be expanded by the category of deconstructed conflict, where the absence or dismantling of conflict becomes an artistic principle.