Psychoanalytic ideas flourished in pre-revolutionary Russia, having a huge impact on the philosophy and art of the Silver Age. But the scientific upsurge coincided with the break of epochs and was rudely interrupted at the end of the 20s…
In this dramatic story, Alexander Etkind is more interested in the human context. He traces the development of ideas through the fate of people. Among the heroes of Etkind are Vasily Rozanov and Andrei Bely, Leon Trotsky and his colleague Adolf Ioffe, who underwent psychoanalysis in Vienna with Alfred Adler; the ideologist of pedology Aron Zalkind and the Soviet neuropsychologist Alexander Luria, who organized a psychoanalytic circle in Kazan. Their attitudes, actions, and views occupy us today no less than 22 years ago, when the book was first published.
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