TMoP Chap 7: Freud on The Brothers Karamazov...fathers, sons, parricide

[Richard Ryan]

This essay, as described, doesn't sound like its one of the high points of Freudian literary criticism - but perhaps I should read it before judging!  Does it mentioned the actual Pavel "Pasha" Isaev, i.e., Dostoevsky's "real world" stepson?  Who died in 1900 I just learned....

--- On Sun, 10/12/08, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
Subject: TMoP Chap 7:  Freud on The Brothers Karamazov...fathers, sons, parricide
To: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Date: Sunday, October 12, 2008, 7:27 PM

 In 1928 Freud published a paper titled "Dostoevsky and parricide" in
which he investigated Dostoevsky's own neuroses and how they contributed to
the novel. Freud claimed that Dostoevsky's epilepsy was not a natural
condition but instead a physical manifestation of the author's hidden guilt
over his father's death. According to Freud, Dostoevsky (and all sons for
that matter) wished for the death of his father because of latent desire for his
mother; and as evidence Freud cites the fact that Dostoevsky's epileptic
fits did not begin until he turned 18, the year his father died.


      
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