Premium Content Understanding Raskolnikov Through His Subconscious in Crime and Punishment
By Katherine Gleason - November 25, 2002
Dreams are considered a link to one's unconscious, able to offer explanations that "... the dreamer could not invent for himself in his waking state," (46). Sigmund Freud made revolutionary strides with the psychological implications of dreams in the late nineteenth century. But before Freud, Feodor Dostoevsky was using dreams as a powerful…
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