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

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The Prince and Ragojian - A Novel Review

I think if she removes the possibility of marrying the prince herself sort of psychologically she is no longer tempted to redeem herself. I see it is motivated entirely by self-loathing that scene where she gets out of the carriage and she's about to be married to the prince and runs to ragojian and says save me we're really she's running to her destruction well a lot of people who have like intense self- loathing sort of want to continue right you know what I mean they want to be self-destructive so if she removes  the prince from she can totally disrupt on her own happiness because it's too inconsistent with her picture of itself it's too discordant.

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