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Freud's lifelong involvement with the Russian nationwide personality and tradition is tested in James Rice's imaginitive mixture of background, literary research, and psychoanalysis. 'Freud's Russia' opens up the overlooked "Eastern entrance" of Freud's world--the Russian roots of his mom and dad, colleagues, and sufferers. He finds that the psychoanalyst used to be vitally considering the occasions in Russian historical past and its nineteenth-century cultural greats. Rice explores how this severe curiosity contributed to the evolution of psychoanalysis at each serious stage.Freud's mentor Charcot used to be a doctor to the Tsar; his top buddies in Paris have been proficient Russian medical professionals; and a few of his such a lot valued colleagues (Max Eitingon, Moshe Wulff, Sabina Spielrein, and Lou Andreas-Salome) have been additionally from Russia. those pals intrigued Freud and triggered his inquiry into the Russian psyche. Rice exhibits how Freud's significant works contain parts, openly and covertly, from his Russia. He describes Freud's most renowned case, the Wolf-Man (Sergei Pankeev), and lines how his character fused, in Freud's mind's eye, with that of Feodor Dostoevsky. past this, Rice finds the outstanding impact Dostoevsky had on Freud, surveying Freud's wide library holdings and resources of biographical details at the Russian novelist.Initially encouraged through the Freud-Jung letters that seemed in 1974, 'Freud's Russia' breaks new flooring. Its clean viewpoint can be of vital curiosity to psychoanalysts, historians of ecu tradition, biographers of Freud, and scholars of Dostoevsky in comparative literature. it's a significant paintings in fusing ecu highbrow background with the founder of psychoanalysis.