Freud's „Abandoning“: A Small Reflection upon an Episode from The Notes from Underground by F. M. Dostoevsky Cover Image

Freudovo „zřeknutí se“: Malé zamyšlení nad jednou epizodou ze Zápisků z podzemí F. M. Dostojevského
Freud's „Abandoning“: A Small Reflection upon an Episode from The Notes from Underground by F. M. Dostoevsky

Author(s): Josef Dohnal
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Česká asociace slavistů
Keywords: F. M. Dostoyevsky; Sigmund Freud; Notes from the Underground; rational and intuitive; giving up; harmony and disharmony

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with F. M. Dostoyevsky´s prosaic work Notes from Under-ground as a manifestation of S. Freud´s term of Verzicht (surrender) in his unterstanding of the personality of the Russian writer and philosopher. The author tries to prove that the episodes in which Dostoyevsky´s hero comes in touch with Liza are an evidence of the fact, that – similar to Dostoyevsky himself – the protagonist of his Notes from Underground is not able to find a harmony between ratio (intellect) and intuition.

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 29-36
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Czech