* Dostoevsky and Parricide: A Summary *

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Main points from the essay:

Freud analysed Dostoevsky’s “The Brothers Karmazou” and categorised into 4 facets:
1) creative artists  least doubtful
2) neurotic  most readily assailable
3) moralist
4) sinner 

- pg 179 para2
Dostoevsky’s complex personality is presented as being 1) quantitative and 2) qualitative
Freud also suggests that: Dostoevsky is a bit neurotic, reason being of his epilepsy
 Epilepsy is a disease of the brain (alien disturbance)
 Epilepsy sufferers are neurotic (disturbance as an expression)
 One characteristic of a neurotic is parricide

OEDIPUS COMPLEX explanation:
- derives from the Greek myth of Oedipus, who unknowingly kills his father, Laius, and marries his mother, Jocasta
- the child feels sexual desire for the parent of the......

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