[HN Gopher] Dostoevsky and His Demons
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Dostoevsky and His Demons
Author : lermontov
Score : 43 points
Date : 2021-06-19 03:50 UTC (2 days ago)
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| DyslexicAtheist wrote:
| 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.
| dang wrote:
| 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.
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| This article doesn't focus unduly on Freud, to judge by a quick
| "cmd+f" in the browser.
| eberkund wrote:
| It's a biography, shouldn't the title include name of the
| person it is about?
| neonate wrote:
| https://archive.is/LgJjx
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