#20 – The Underground Spirit
The Martyr Made Podcast
Dostoyevsky's the Double
There is this theme of the divided self in dostoyevsky that runs through from beginning to end. The protagonist's name, raskolnikov, is a play on the russian rascal which means divided or split or ruptured. If you were observing some one suffering from skitzophrenia, and i asked you to put a name on that you'd never heard of it before, or whatever, said, this person, watch him for a little while and give me a name for whatever you're seeing. Ri it's interesting that we chose that particular terminology to describe some of the most fundamental forms of madness.
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