1st Edition

Dostoevsky The Author as Psychoanalyst

By Louis Breger Copyright 1989
318 Pages
by Routledge

318 Pages
by Routledge

315 Pages
by Routledge

Andrï Gide once said that Feodor Dostoevsky "lost himself in the characters of his books, and, for this reason, it is in them that he can be found again." In Dostoevsky: The Author as Psychoanalyst, Louis Breger approaches Dostoevsky psychoanalytically, not as a "patient" to be analyzed, but as a fellow psychoanalyst, someone whose life and fiction are intertwined in the process of literary... Read more
Prologue: The Horse, the Courier; 1: The Author as Psychoanalyst; 2: Crime and Punishment: The Author’s Life; 3: Crime and Punishment: The Novel; 4: Associations to the Novel and the “Scene”; 5: The Dostoevsky Family; 6: The Engineering Academy: Poor Folk; 7: Nervous Crisis: The Double; 8: Political Conspiracy: The Possessed; 9: Prison, Exile, the Second Maria; 10: Return to Petersburg: Journalism, Women, Gambling; 11: The Death of Maria: Notes from Underground; 12: Death and Rebirth

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