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Abstract:
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Psychoanalysis and Russian symbolism in interaction. Tatyana Rosenthal’s poems and Dostoevsky essay.
T. Rosenthal (1884–1921) was a Russian psychoanalyst and physician in St Petersburg. In 2018, a biography of her was published in Russia, and at the same time her poems, previously thought lost, which had been published in 1918 under pseudonym, were discovered and republished. 100 years after her death, her small oeuvre can now be placed in its cultural and historical context. In particular her poems reveal Rosenthal’s connections to Russian symbolism. These traces can also be found in her major work, a psychoanalytic study of Dostoevsky. The paper examines which sources influenced Rosenthal’s Dostoevsky essay, what she contributed to the broad field of Dostoevsky studies, and how her essay was received.
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