As long as we're exhuming the topic...

[Inna Caron]

Dear Daniel,

I was referring to my personal experiences, in comparison to nightmare
described in PsychArt posts by English students, and sometimes their
parents.
I have not witnessed any Russian/Slavic studies professor silence a
student mid-sentence if the latter ventured into psychoanalysis (and if
that is the situation in California, I would not be in the rush to move
there, sunny as it may be :) Perhaps English professors simply have
poorer manners or are less stable. I am not out to offer an explanation;
I was merely asking a question.

Also, I have the book you're referring to, along with three others, also
bearing your name, on a bookshelf less than one foot away. I've
consulted them quite a bit, and with much interest. To me the very fact
that they exist, and that our library owns them, seems a proof that
psychoanalytical approach is perfectly legitimate. Perhaps it's the
Soviet era child in me speaking, but I thought that if a certain school
of thought was banned, its books would not be printed by academic
publishers.

We can continue this off-list, so that other people wouldn't get sick of
it as they did with the opera. 

Sincerely,

Inna


-----Original Message-----
From: Slavic & East European Languages and Literature list
[mailto:SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU] On Behalf Of Daniel
Rancour-Laferriere
Sent: Saturday, March 18, 2006 3:35 AM
To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU
Subject: [SEELANGS] Psychoanalysis and Russian Studies

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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