The monograph, for the first time in Russian Lermontov studies, examines the poet’s personality from the perspective of psychoanalysis. The origins of his basal psychological conflict and the influence of heredity on Lermontov's psychological type are revealed. The psychological patterns of his death are shown. A cultural and psychoanalytic interpretation of such taboo works as “Junker poems” is given. For literary scholars, psychologists, cultural experts, teachers.