Acknowledgments

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I. Previous contributions
6. Dostoevsky and parricide 41
7. Dostoevsky’s experiment with projective mechanisms and the theft of identity in The Double 59
8. Myshkin and Rogozhin 89
9. Gogol’s retreat from love 101
10. Puškin and Don Juan 123
11. Solzhenitsyn and the Jews 143
12. Part II. New contributions
13. The psychoanalytic breakthrough in Russia on the eve of the First World War 173
14. Puškin and the pleasure of the text 193
15. The obverse of self 225
16. Psychoanalysis of “Peasant Marej” 245
17. Pathological patterns in Belyj’s novels 263
18. Kto vinovat? Guilt and rebellion in zoscenko’s accounts of childhood 285
19. Of dreams, devils, irrationality and The Master and Margarita 303
20. The beauty mark and the “I”s of the beholder 329
21. Cloud, castle, claustrum 353
22. Splitting of the ego 369
23. Charles Kinbote’s psychosis 381
24. Bakhtin and Freud on the ego 401
25. Dora and the underground man 417
26. Women without men in the writing of contemporary Soviet women writers 431
27. Can a literature be neurotic? 451
28. Abstracts of contents 471