Psychoanalysis and Russian Studies

[Daniel Rancour-Laferriere]

18 March 2006

Dear Inna Caron,
Can you really have written the following words?

>I have to say, I did not notice any negativity surrounding
>psychoanalytical approach in Russian literary studies.
>

Where have you been?  If it's not a secret, please tell me, so I can go 
there too (although I would miss my sunny California)...

Seriously.  On the traditional, well-entrenched hostility toward 
psychoanalysis in the Russian field, see my survey in the volume I 
edited, _Russian Literature and Psychoanalysis_ (Amsterdam: John 
Benjamins Publishing Company, 1989, pp. 1-38).  For the Russian version, 
see my _Russkaia literatura i psikhoanaliz_ (Moscow: Ladomir, 2004, pp. 
128-160).

I could tell some stories from as far back as thirty-five years ago.  
But no, not yet.

Regards,

Daniel Rancour-Laferriere

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