A new study of the mental phenomenon of the writer (the case of Dostoevsky). Focusing on how external impulses can be interpreted in the mind through fragments of past (internal) experience, the researcher reveals fascinating and sometimes exciting “plots” from the life of the writer and, demonstrating how fantasies could give way to the writer’s secret desire to play out his biography in a new way . The study is structured like a detective story with the unobtrusive introduction of examples from the practice of psychoanalysis and psychopathology. Using well-known “facts”: the ideas and fantasies of Dostoevsky, as well as the ideas and fantasies of his interpreters, the author of the book builds a dialogue with the writer (and the reader) not in the form of an “exchange of ideas,” but as a model of what could have taken place in the mind ( and subconscious) of the writer, that is, could to be really accessible to his (and all) experience.

Contents: Preface 5Chapter 1. “I live on my own credit” 161. “Renunciation? How did Peter deny?” 162. “The correctness of the concept he put forward” 323. “Two unknown old men” 52Chapter 2. “My father’s vicious heredity” 581. “As much as funds allowed” 582. “A miniature inheritance” 823. “As if she was begging for his approval” 97Chapter 3. “To lose the idea of what you are” 1121. “Who will especially condemn him for this?” 1122. “I honor his memory and am in awe of it” 134Chapter 4. “The one who needs poses at all is false” 1671. “The new Gogol has appeared” 1672. “I myself was tied with my hands” 1983. “Inferior in talent and strength. .. Pushkin and Gogol" 203Chapter 5. "The ability to be an enemy" 2081. "Even if a pamphlet comes out, but I will speak out" 2082. "I don’t care “They still don’t bring dinner” 2333. “Every minute it’s like being born anew” 2374. “The struggle plan is reminiscent of Lecoq’s operetta” 245Chapter 6. “Perhaps I am the jester” 2541. “In its tragicomic grandeur” 2542. “A serious subject ( true, at the same time funny)" 2623. "Puts on a blond wig and blue pants" 290Chapter 7. "Crumble... before everything scientific" 3041. "A uniform or a tailcoat" 3042. "I made a definition of Paris" 3163. "... like horse dealers, they sold their horses" 3274. "...could have fallen into tartarars" 343Chapter 8. "At the moments of the least ability to defend themselves" 3501. "I looked like a groom" 3502. "There was a burning desire to stay together" 3763. "I started how “We’re talking about roulette” 387Chapter 9. “Everyone who remains silent” 4001. “The groom shakes the bride’s feet and hands at the table so that she is meek” 4002. “Guess who, and be jealous,” or “The veil has fallen” 4093. “The executioner and the martyr sometimes mysteriously merge into one” 429Chapter 10. “This dual experience is repeated” 4421. “What kind of person is this”? 4422. “Equip yourself with strong impressions experienced by the author’s heart” 4483. “I wrote about you then” 480Chapter 11. “Lies caused by bad instincts” 4871. “Certainly seem like something else” 4872. “Union of Writers” 5003. “ I am writing my “Diary” for myself” 513Chapter 12. “The spirit itself is just a function of metabolism” 5321. “Converted into the body of a woman” 5322. “We will put the lamp here, in the middle” 5403. “I asked for detailed frankness from the doctor” 5554. “You shouldn’t lower your eyes at all” 574Name index 590