Freud x Frank: An reading of the text "Dostoievsky and Parricide"

Abstract

The intention of the article is to accomplish an analysis on two different perspectives about the figure of Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Namely, the interpretations are from Sigmund Freud and Joseph Frank. While the first one uses the psychoanalysis to interpret the Russian writer’s novels, in order to hold the idea of he suffers from neurological disorders that have influenced his work, Frank argues against Freud’s ideas. The aim is not investigating who is right about the novelist, but search a proper view about the ups and downs of the text “Dostoyevsky and Parricide", and thereby, try to understand how Dostoyevsky’s novels have anticipated some important subjects to the psychoanalysis.