Russia as a patient for negative psychoanalysis

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2022-08-29
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Reshe, Julie
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10.1007/s11212-022-09497-8
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This paper brings together the late Freud’s concept of the death drive and Dostoevsky’s vision of primordial suffering in order to analyze anti-Ukrainian and pro-Ukrainian trends in today’s Russia. The paper encourages embracing the suffering that the death drive entails, instead of escaping it through the narrative of Russia’s ‘greatness’.
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Death drive , Dostoevsky , Negative psychoanalysis , Russia , Ukraine
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Reshe, J. (2022) 'Russia as a patient for negative psychoanalysis', Studies in East European Thought. doi: 10.1007/s11212-022-09497-8
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© 2022, the Authors, under exclusive licence to Springer Nature B.V. This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in Studies in East European Thought. The final authenticated version is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11212-022-09497-8