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Russian Literature and Psychoanalysis
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
Published online on 7 November 2011
Published online on 7 November 2011
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments | pp. ix–x
- Introduction: Russian literature and psychoanalysis — Four modes of intersectionDaniel Rancour-Laferriere | p. 1
- Part I. Previous contributions
- Dostoevsky and parricideS. Freud | p. 41
- Dostoevsky’s experiment with projective mechanisms and the theft of identity in The DoubleR.J. Rosenthal | p. 59
- Myshkin and RogozhinE. Dalton | p. 89
- Gogol’s retreat from love: Toward an interpretation of MirgorodH. McLean | p. 101
- Puškin and Don JuanHenry Kučera | p. 123
- Solzhenitsyn and the Jews: A psychoanalytic viewDaniel Rancour-Laferriere | p. 143
- Part II. New contributions
- The psychoanalytic breakthrough in Russia on the eve of the First World WarM. Ljunggren | p. 173
- Puškin and the pleasure of the text: Anal and erotic images of creativityL. Brett Cooke | p. 193
- The obverse of self: Gender shifts in poems by Tjutčev and AxmatovaS. Pratt | p. 225
- Psychoanalysis of “Peasant Marej”: Some residual problemsJ. Rice | p. 245
- Pathological patterns in Belyj’s novels: “Ableuxovs-Letaevs-Korobkins” revisitedOlga Muller Cooke | p. 263
- Kto vinovat? Guilt and rebellion in zoscenko’s accounts of childhoodKrista Hanson | p. 285
- Of dreams, devils, irrationality and The Master and MargaritaJon Mills | p. 303
- The beauty mark and the “I”s of the beholder: Limonov’s narcissistic poem “Ja v mysljax poderžu drugogo čeloveka”A. Zholkovsky | p. 329
- Cloud, castle, claustrum: Nabokov as a Freudian in spite of himselfA. Elms | p. 353
- Splitting of the ego: Freudian doubles, Nabokovian doublesGeorgia M. Green | p. 369
- Charles Kinbote’s psychosis: A key to Vladimir Nabokov’s Pale FireP. Welsen | p. 381
- Bakhtin and Freud on the egoG. Pirog | p. 401
- Dora and the underground manH. Murav | p. 417
- Women without men in the writing of contemporary Soviet women writersA. Barker | p. 431
- Can a literature be neurotic? Literary self and authority structures in Russian cultural developmentG. Cox | p. 451
- Abstracts of contents | pp. 471–485
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