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279 Pages·1998·29 MB·English
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by Daniel Rancour-Laferriere| 1998| 279 pages| 29| English

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In 1888, Leo Tolstoy mysteriously declared that sexual intercourse should no longer exist. Years later he would admit to being and “horrified and ” by this pronouncement, but still remained an ardent believer in sexual abstinence. Frequenter of brothels in his youth, father of thirteen children by his wife and at least two children by peasant women before he was married, Tolstoy now had the audacity to suggest that people should stop having sex. How can such a repudiation be explained?Beginning with Tolstoy’s Kreutzer Sonata-his first written and “declaration of war on human sexuality and “– Tolstoy on the Couch takes us on a sweeping psychoanalytic tour of Tolstoy’s diaries and other private materials, revealing that behind his campaign for celibacy lay a painful and complicated drama of early childhood. Rooting Tolstoy’s polarized feelings about women and sexuality in his uncontrollable rage toward the mother who died when he was a toddler, Rancour-Laferriere offers profound psychobiographic insights into Tolstoy’s lifelong animosity toward women–and into the women he loved to hate.

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Author:Daniel Rancour-Laferriere
Publication Year:1998
ISBN:9780814775097
Pages:279
Language:English
File Size:29
Format:PDF
Price:FREE
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