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In:Russian Literature and Psychoanalysis
Edited by Daniel Rancour-Laferriere
[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe 31] 1989
► pp. v–viii

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Published online: 1 January 1989

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Table of contents

Acknowledgmentsix

Introduction: Russian literature and psychoanalysis — Four modes of intersection1

Daniel Rancour-Laferriere

Part I. Previous contributions

Dostoevsky and parricide41

Dostoevsky’s experiment with projective mechanisms and the theft of identity in The Double59

Myshkin and Rogozhin89

Gogol’s retreat from love: Toward an interpretation of Mirgorod101

Puškin and Don Juan123

Solzhenitsyn and the Jews: A psychoanalytic view143

Daniel Rancour-Laferriere

Part II. New contributions

The psychoanalytic breakthrough in Russia on the eve of the First World War173

Puškin and the pleasure of the text: Anal and erotic images of creativity193

The obverse of self: Gender shifts in poems by Tjutčev and Axmatova225

Psychoanalysis of “Peasant Marej”: Some residual problems245

Pathological patterns in Belyj’s novels: “Ableuxovs-Letaevs-Korobkins” revisited263

Olga Muller Cooke

Kto vinovat? Guilt and rebellion in zoscenko’s accounts of childhood285

Of dreams, devils, irrationality and The Master and Margarita303

The beauty mark and the “I”s of the beholder: Limonov’s narcissistic poem “Ja v mysljax poderžu drugogo čeloveka”329

Cloud, castle, claustrum: Nabokov as a Freudian in spite of himself353

Splitting of the ego: Freudian doubles, Nabokovian doubles369

Georgia M. Green

Charles Kinbote’s psychosis: A key to Vladimir Nabokov’s Pale Fire381

Bakhtin and Freud on the ego401

Dora and the underground man417

Women without men in the writing of contemporary Soviet women writers431

Can a literature be neurotic? Literary self and authority structures in Russian cultural development451

Abstracts of contents471