Crime and Punishment: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Borisacon - The First Psychoanalyst in Russian Literature
Porfiry petrovitch is considered the first psychoanalyst in russian literature. In crime and punishment, raskolnikov refuses to sume direct or personal responsibility for the murder. He tells sonya, did i really kill the old woman? No, it was myself i killed. And on another occasion, he says, it wasn't a human being i killed. It was a principle. So, er sara, do you think that he ever does actually repent, not really thinks about it, but he never gets there in the novel itself?
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