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Dostoevsky and His Demons (nybooks.com)
72 points by lermontov on June 21, 2021 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments



lot of content in the book seems focused on Freud being spectacularly wrong. this isn't news. Freud's contribution was formalizing a method for psycho analysis. anything else on Freud should be dismissed - thought that has already been established during the middle of last century. no idea why this book spins this into a regurgitated article on what any Dostoevsky fan is already aware. Using the name Dostoevsky in your book title seems like a strategy to piggyback as a wannabe writer.


Morson is a well-known scholar of Russian literature. A number of his articles have appeared on HN before. They seem pretty good for non-specialist readers.

This article doesn't focus unduly on Freud, to judge by a quick "cmd+f" in the browser.


It's a biography, shouldn't the title include name of the person it is about?




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