Russian Literature and Psychoanalysis

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Daniel Rancour-Laferriere

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This is a collection of psychoanalytical essays on a broad spectrum of well-known Russian authors, such as Puskin, Dostoevsky, Gogol, Belyj, Tjutcev, Axmatova, and Nabokov. The volume includes some reprints, among which a contribution by Sigmund Freud on Dostoevsky and Parricide'. The majority of the contributions are original publications by present-day specialists in the field. This is a book which may benefit literary scholars as well as professional psychoanalysts.

[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 31] 1989. x, 485 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/llsee.31

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction: Russian literature and psychoanalysis — Four modes of intersection Daniel Rancour-Laferriere	1
Part I. Previous contributions
Dostoevsky and parricide S. Freud	41
Dostoevsky’s experiment with projective mechanisms and the theft of identity in The Double R.J. Rosenthal	59
Myshkin and Rogozhin E. Dalton	89
Gogol’s retreat from love: Toward an interpretation of Mirgorod H. McLean	101
Puškin and Don Juan Henry Kučera	123
Solzhenitsyn and the Jews: A psychoanalytic view Daniel Rancour-Laferriere	143
Part II. New contributions
The psychoanalytic breakthrough in Russia on the eve of the First World War M. Ljunggren	173
Puškin and the pleasure of the text: Anal and erotic images of creativity L. Brett Cooke	193
The obverse of self: Gender shifts in poems by Tjutčev and Axmatova S. Pratt	225
Psychoanalysis of “Peasant Marej”: Some residual problems J. Rice	245
Pathological patterns in Belyj’s novels: “Ableuxovs-Letaevs-Korobkins” revisited Olga Muller Cooke	263
Kto vinovat? Guilt and rebellion in zoscenko’s accounts of childhood Krista Hanson	285
Of dreams, devils, irrationality and The Master and Margarita Jon Mills	303
The beauty mark and the “I”s of the beholder: Limonov’s narcissistic poem “Ja v mysljax poderžu drugogo čeloveka” A. Zholkovsky	329
Cloud, castle, claustrum: Nabokov as a Freudian in spite of himself A. Elms	353
Splitting of the ego: Freudian doubles, Nabokovian doubles Georgia M. Green	369
Charles Kinbote’s psychosis: A key to Vladimir Nabokov’s Pale Fire P. Welsen	381
Bakhtin and Freud on the ego G. Pirog	401
Dora and the underground man H. Murav	417
Women without men in the writing of contemporary Soviet women writers A. Barker	431
Can a literature be neurotic?: Literary self and authority structures in Russian cultural development G. Cox	451
Abstracts of contents	471

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Subjects

Literature & Literary Studies

Theoretical literature & literary studies

BIC Subject: DSB – Literary studies: general

BISAC Subject: LIT000000 – LITERARY CRITICISM / General

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