Dostoevsky
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19th century Russian novels
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A01=Louis Breger
Author_George Santayana
Author_Louis Breger
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Chest Ailment
Colors Crime
Compulsive Gambling
Don Juanism
Dostoevsky Family
Dostoevsky psychological self-exploration
Dostoevsky's Father
Dostoevsky's Life
Dostoevsky’s Father
Dostoevsky’s Life
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Eternal Husband
Feodor Dostoevsky
Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
Maria's Death
Maria’s Death
Maternal Ambivalence
narrative identity formation
Nastasya Filippovna
Ne Tochka Nezvanova
Polina Suslova
psychoanalytic literary criticism
psychological character analysis
psychopathology in fiction
Raskolnikov's Dream
Raskolnikov's Mother
Raskolnikov’s Dream
Raskolnikov’s Mother
Raw Youth
Red Spider
Russian literature studies
Stavrogin's Confession
Stavrogin’s Confession
Stepan Verkhovensky
Unconscious Reenactment
Underground Man
Wet Nurse
Younger Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781412808439
- Weight: 498g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 15 Jan 2009
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 self-exploration.Raskolnikov's dream of the suffering horse in Crime and Punishment has become one of the best known in all literature, its rich imagery expressing meaning on many levels. Using this as a starting point, Breger goes on to offer a detailed analysis of the novel, situating it at the pivotal point in Dostoevsky's life between the death of his first wife and his second marriage. Using insights from his psychological training, Breger also explores other works by Dostoevsky, among them his early novel, The Double, which Breger relates to the nervous breakdown that Dostoevsky suffered in his twenties, as well as Notes from Underground, The Possessed, The Idiot, The Brothers Karamazov, and so forth. Additionally, details from Dostoevsky's own life - his compulsive gambling, his epilepsy, his philosophical, political, religious, and mystical beliefs, and the interpretations of them found in existing biographies - are analyzed in detail.
Louis Breger is Professor of Psychoanalytic Studies Emeritus at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. He is a practicing psychotherapist and psychoanalyst, and is the Founding President of the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles. He has written other books and a number of scholarly articles on psychoanalytic topics including the acclaimed biography, Freud: Darkness in the Midst of Vision and From Instinct to Identity.
