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      Tolstoy on the Couch: Misogyny, Masochism and the Absent Mother

      Daniel Rancour-Laferriere

      In 1889, having fathered at least 15 children by various women, Tolstoy suggested in The Kreutzer Sonata , that people should stop having children. Through psychoanalysis, this text shows that…

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      Tolstoy on the Couch: Misogyny, Masochism and the Absent Mother

      Daniel Rancour-Laferriere

      In his 1889 novella The Kreutzer Sonata Lev Tolstoy declared war on human sexuality. Psychoanalysis of Tolstoy’s diaries and other private materials reveals that Tolstoy’s anti-sex position was grounded in…

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      Self-Analysis in Literary Study: Exploring Hidden Agendas

      This text demonstrates how self-analysis can be a useful psychoanalytic approach to literary theory. It explores how the psyche affects intellectual discovery in the realm of applied psychoanalysis.

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      The Slave Soul of Russia: Moral Masochism and the Cult of Suffering

      Daniel Rancour-Laferriere

      Why, asks Daniel Rancour-Laferriere in this controversial book, has Russia been a country of suffering? Russian history, religion, folklore, and literature are rife with suffering. The plight of Anna Karenina…

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      Tolstoy’s Quest for God

      Daniel Rancour-Laferriere

      The religious dimension of Tolstoy’s life is usually associated with his later years following his renunciation of art. This volume demonstrates instead that Tolstoy was preoccupied with a quest for…

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      The Sign of the Cross: From Golgotha to Genocide

      Daniel Rancour-Laferriere (University of California Davis, Emeritus, USA)

      This book presents a unique effort to create a new understanding of the Christian sign of the cross

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      Imagining Mary: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Devotion to the Virgin Mother of God

      Daniel Rancour-Laferriere (University of California Davis, Emeritus, USA)

      The Latin adage about the Virgin Mary, de Maria numquam satis, tells us there is never enough of Mary. Breaking new ground in the long tradition of Christian mariology, Imagining…

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      The Sign of the Cross: From Golgotha to Genocide

      Daniel Rancour-Laferriere (University of California Davis, Emeritus, USA)

      This book presents a unique effort to create a new understanding of the Christian sign of the cross

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      Tolstoy’s Quest for God

      Daniel Rancour-Laferriere (University of California Davis, Emeritus, USA)

      The religious dimension of Tolstoy’s life is usually associated with his later years following his renunciation of art

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      Tolstoy on the Couch: Misogyny, Masochism, and the Absent Mother

      Daniel Rancour-Laferriere,Pauline Schloesser

      In 1888, Leo Tolstoy mysteriously declared that sexual intercourse should no longer exist. Years later he would admit to being horrified by this pronouncement, but still remained an ardent believer…

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