Psychoanalysis and Russian Studies

[Alina Israeli]

I think the disagreement between Daniel Rancour-Laferriere and George
Mitrevski stems largely from the fact that psychoanalysis or talk therapy
(I myself am more of post-Jungian persuasion) has dual function: diagnostic
and treatment. Since treatment is out of the question (we are not going to
treat Golyadkin from whatever ails him, probably schizophrenia), literary
critic is concerned with the diagnosis of the character and/or the author
of that particular creation, in case there is enough psychological material
presented on the pages of a story of novel for such an analysis.

What I don't understand is this: if Onegin is gay (or exhibits latent
homosexual tendencies, whatever is the correct term), how come he fall in
love with a woman at the end of the novel?


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 Alina Israeli
 LFS, American University
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 Washington, DC 20016

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