Andri 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.
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