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'''''Dostoevsky and Parricide''''' is a 1928 article by ] that argues that the greatest works of world literature all concern ]: ], ], and ]. Freud repeats an untrue rumour that ]'s ] was a function of guilt he bore at having wished for the death of his tyrannical father who was purportedly murdered by his own serfs. A similar rumour alleges that Dostoevsky's first ] occurred upon his receipt of the news of his father's death. Dostoevsky himself however claimed that his first seizure occurred in Siberia during his ]. Whatever their origins, upon completion of the Brothers Karamazov, his seizures stopped and had not returned at the time of his death a year later. '''''Dostoevsky and Parricide''''' is a 1928 article by ] that argues that the greatest works of world literature all concern ]: ], ], and ].

Freud also describes latent homosexual tendencies existing in Dostoevsky, alongside his overt heterosexuality, and explains this condition in terms of the ]. Freud attributes a deep neuroticism to Dostoevsky due to his unresolved Oedipal complex, claiming that it prevented him from becoming one of the great liberators of mankind. Ultimately, Freud claims that ]'s works are diminished by their weak Christian endings.

(Freud's first extensive writing about parricide was in ] (1913), widely seen as his watershed work away from clinically oriented subject matter to philosophy. In it, parricide is the great crime at the base of all social evolution. ]'s anthropological work '']''.)


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Dostoevsky and Parricide is a 1928 article by Sigmund Freud that argues that the greatest works of world literature all concern parricide: Oedipus the King, Hamlet, and The Brothers Karamazov.


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