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Episode 164: Dostoyevsky’s “The Idiot” on Perfection (Part One)

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Novel Review - Everybody Fails

Nastasia then in terms of freedom we were given some examples one of the ones we haven't brought up that I think is a good evidence for her not being free. It's much easier to give a Freudian analysis of her than a sort of existentialist analysis of her, he says. She is a victim of the whole self-esteem of thinking she's a victim and this torments her so even though you know at the end of book one she goes off with Rogorjan but then in the interim that takes place in Moscow.

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