"This stimulating, courageous, wide-ranging account of the
psychopathology of Tolstoy may be as warmly recommended to the
novice as to the seasoned scholar. It is a penetrating, richly
rewarding account of a fascinating subject."--"Slavic and East
European Journal"
In 1888, Leo Tolstoy mysteriously declared that sexual
intercourse should no longer exist. Years later he would admit to
being "horrified" by this pronouncement, but still remained an
ardent believer in sexual abstinence. Frequenter of brothels in his
youth, father of thirteen children by his wife and at least two
children by peasant women before he was married, Tolstoy now had
the audacity to suggest that people should stop having sex. How can
such a repudiation be explained?
Beginning with Tolstoy's Kreutzer Sonataahis first written
"declaration of war on human sexuality"--Tolstoy on the Couch takes
us on a sweeping psychoanalytic tour of Tolstoy's diaries and other
private materials, revealing that behind his campaign for celibacy
lay a painful and complicated drama of early childhood. Rooting
Tolstoy's polarized feelings about women and sexuality in his
uncontrollable rage toward the mother who died when he was a
toddler, Rancour-Laferriere offers profound psychobiographic
insights into Tolstoy's lifelong animosity toward women--and into
the women he loved to hate.
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