Clinical lessons on life and madness : Dostoevsky's characters /
"The author of Clinical Lessons on Life and Madness: Dostoevsky's Characters draws on Dostoevsky's universe to illuminate psychoanalytic theory and practice. Using Dostoevsky's characters as case studies, the author discusses the various psychoanalytic concepts they embody, and s...
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Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group,
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Publisher Address: | Abingdon, Oxon : |
Publication Dates: | 2019. |
Literature type: | Book |
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English French |
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"The author of Clinical Lessons on Life and Madness: Dostoevsky's Characters draws on Dostoevsky's universe to illuminate psychoanalytic theory and practice. Using Dostoevsky's characters as case studies, the author discusses the various psychoanalytic concepts they embody, and shows how these insights can be applied to therapeutic understanding. By considering the people who populate Dostoevsky's world as personifying a whole spectrum of human possibilities and modes of relation, Heitor O'Dwyer de Macedo's discussion of the characters - including those from Notes from Underground, Crime and |
Carrier Form: | 245 pages ; 24 cm |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [238]-240) and index. |
ISBN: |
9781138499560 1138499560 9781138499553 1138499552 |
Index Number: | PG3328 |
CLC: | I512.074 |
Call Number: | I512.074/M141 |
Contents: | Notes from underground -- Crime and punishment -- The double -- The idiot -- Demons -- The Brothers Karamazov -- Women in Dostoyevsky's fiction -- The grand inquisitor. |