Daniel Rancour-Laferriere
Biographic Data
| ID | 1018398 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel Rancour-Laferriere |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel |
| FAMILY NAME | Rancour-Laferriere |
| SIGNATURE | RANCOUR-LAFERRIERE D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Davis |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Mourner’s Kaddish and Its Connections: Psychoanalytic Thoughts on Mourning in the Jewish Religious Context
Psychoanalysis teaches that the goal of mourning is for the bereaved eventually to be able to accept the death of a loved one. It may therefore come as a surprise that what religious Jews call Mourner’s Kaddish makes no reference whatsoever to death, the deceased, or the bereaved. Instead of having anything to do with the mourning process, this ancient prayer requires the bereaved to utter nothing but words of exaggerated praise for the “great na…
Death Imagined: From Mother Earth to Dust and Ashes in the Mind of Job
Early in the Book of Job the hero's future death is represented as a return to the "womb" of a maternalized earth. However, this metaphor of uterine regression–a cross-cultural commonplace which has been studied by Otto Rank (1929)–is not what it seems to be at first glance. Job desperately wishes to go down into the earth not in order to rest in peace, but in order to escape the persecutory God who has deprived him of his ten children, his vast …
The Slave Soul of Russia: Moral Masochism and the Cult of Suffering
Why, asks Daniel Rancour-Laferriere in this controversial book, has Russia been a country of suffering? Russian history, religion, folklore, and literature are rife with suffering. The plight of Anna Karenina, the submissiveness of serfs in the 16th and 17th centuries, ancient religious tracts emphasizing humility as the mother of virtues, the trauma of the Bolshevik revolution, the current economic upheavals wracking the country-- these are only…
Imagining Mary: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Devotion to the Virgin Mother of God
The Joy of All Who Sorrow: Icons of the Mother of God in Russia / Традццця Ночцманця Цкон Бозомамерц Б Поссцц Злазамц Амерцканскосо Нсцхоаналцмцка
Red Priests: Renovationism, Russian Orthodoxy, and Revolution, 1905-1946
"Does God Exist? A Clinical Study of the Religious Attitudes Expressed in Tolstoy's "Confession
Late in 1879 Lev Tolstoy set to work on something that would be quite un like anything he had ever written before. The personal spiritual concerns of the author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina could occasionally be glimpsed in characters like Pierre Bezukhov, Andrei Bolkonsky, Anna Karen ina, or Konstantin Levin. But now that famous author of novels was writing about himself directly, without the cover of fictional personae. Confession [Is pov…
The Moral Masochism at the Heart of Christianity: Evidence from Russian Orthodox Iconography and Icon Veneration
he core of Christian dogma may be expressed as follows: nearly two thousand years ago a man named Jesus permitted himself to be tortured to death on a wooden cross. This act is supposed to have saved or redeemed humankind from an earlier fall into sin. We were redeemed because we were all sinful to begin with, and because the man who ac- cepted this torture and death was none other than God himself, in the person of God the Son. As Saint John of …
Making War, Not Love: Gender and Sexuality in Russian Humor
Letters
The Slave Soul of Russia: Moral Masochism and the Cult of Suffering
Their Fathers' Voice: Vassily Aksyonov, Venedikt Erofeev, Eduard Limonov, and Sasha Sokolov
Self-Analysis in Literary Study: Exploring Hidden Agendas
What makes one reader look for issues of social conformity in Kafka's Metamorphosis while another concentrates on the relationship between Gregor Samsa and his father? Self-Analysis in Literary Study investigates how the psychoanalytic self-analysis enables readers to gain a deeper understanding of literature as well as themselves. In the past scholars have largely ignored self-analysis as an aid to approaching literature. The contributors in Sel…
The Russian Mephisto: A Study of the Life and Work of Emilii Medtner
The Slave Soul of Russia: Moral Masochism and the Cult of Suffering
Slave Soul of Russia: Moral Masochism and the Cult of Suffering
Tolstoy's Pierre Bezukhov: A Psychoanalytic Study
Violence in the Garden: A Work by Tolstaja in Kleinian Perspective
Daniel Rancour-Laferriere, Vera Loseva, Aleksej Lunkov, Tat'jana Tolstaja, Violence in the Garden: A Work by Tolstaja in Kleinian Perspective, The Slavic and East European Journal, Vol. 39, No. 4 (Winter, 1995), pp. 524-534
The slave soul of Russia: Moral Masochism and the Cult of Suffering
Lermontov's Farewell to Unwashed Russia: A Study in Narcissistic Rage
Russian Literature and Psychoanalysis
Dostoevsky: The Author as Psychoanalyst
Russian Literature and Psychoanalysis
From Incompetence to Satire: Voinovich's Image of Stalin as Castrated Leader of the Soviet Union in 1941
The narrator of Vladimir Voinovich's Zhizn' i neobychainye prikliucheniia soldata Ivana Chonkina: roman-anekdot v piati chastiakh tells us on the first page that the events he is going to describe took place during the period from late May to early June 1941. For the knowledgeable reader, this information means something terrible is about to happen: On 22 June Adolf Hitler's forces invaded the Soviet Union, starting what was to be one of the most…
Rethinking Bakhtin: Extensions and Challenges
The Moral Masochism at the Heart of Christianity: Evidence from Russian Orthodox Iconography and Icon Veneration
he core of Christian dogma may be expressed as follows: nearly two thousand years ago a man named Jesus permitted himself to be tortured to death on a wooden cross. This act is supposed to have saved or redeemed humankind from an earlier fall into sin. We were redeemed because we were all sinful to begin with, and because the man who ac- cepted this torture and death was none other than God himself, in the person of God the Son. As Saint John of …
The Slave Soul of Russia: Moral Masochism and the Cult of Suffering
The Russian Mephisto: A Study of the Life and Work of Emilii Medtner
Out from under Gogol's Overcoat: A Psychoanalytic Study
"Gogol's "Overcoat: An Anthology of Critical Essays
Out from under Gogol's Overcoat
Out from under Gogol's Overcoat: A Psychoanalytic Study
Themes and Texts: Toward a Poetics of Expressiveness
Linguistic and Folkloristic Notes on Pasternak's "Khmel"'
Notes and Comments
Russian Literature and Psychoanalysis
This is a collection of psychoanalytical essays on a broad spectrum of well-known Russian authors, such as Puskin, Dostoevsky, Gogol, Belyj, Tjutcev, Axmatova, and Nabokov. The volume includes some reprints, among which a contribution by Sigmund Freud on Dostoevsky and Parricide'. The majority of the contributions are original publications by present-day specialists in the field. This is a book which may benefit literary scholars as well as profe…
Spon'ka's Dream Interpreted
Rethinking Bakhtin: Extensions and Challenges
Russian Literature and Psychoanalysis
From Incompetence to Satire: Voinovich's Image of Stalin as Castrated Leader of the Soviet Union in 1941
The narrator of Vladimir Voinovich's Zhizn' i neobychainye prikliucheniia soldata Ivana Chonkina: roman-anekdot v piati chastiakh tells us on the first page that the events he is going to describe took place during the period from late May to early June 1941. For the knowledgeable reader, this information means something terrible is about to happen: On 22 June Adolf Hitler's forces invaded the Soviet Union, starting what was to be one of the most…
Dostoevsky: The Author as Psychoanalyst
Lermontov's Farewell to Unwashed Russia: A Study in Narcissistic Rage
Russian Literature and Psychoanalysis
Slave Soul of Russia: Moral Masochism and the Cult of Suffering
Tolstoy's Pierre Bezukhov: A Psychoanalytic Study
Violence in the Garden: A Work by Tolstaja in Kleinian Perspective
Daniel Rancour-Laferriere, Vera Loseva, Aleksej Lunkov, Tat'jana Tolstaja, Violence in the Garden: A Work by Tolstaja in Kleinian Perspective, The Slavic and East European Journal, Vol. 39, No. 4 (Winter, 1995), pp. 524-534
The slave soul of Russia: Moral Masochism and the Cult of Suffering
Their Fathers' Voice: Vassily Aksyonov, Venedikt Erofeev, Eduard Limonov, and Sasha Sokolov
Self-Analysis in Literary Study: Exploring Hidden Agendas
What makes one reader look for issues of social conformity in Kafka's Metamorphosis while another concentrates on the relationship between Gregor Samsa and his father? Self-Analysis in Literary Study investigates how the psychoanalytic self-analysis enables readers to gain a deeper understanding of literature as well as themselves. In the past scholars have largely ignored self-analysis as an aid to approaching literature. The contributors in Sel…
The Russian Mephisto: A Study of the Life and Work of Emilii Medtner
The Slave Soul of Russia: Moral Masochism and the Cult of Suffering
The Slave Soul of Russia: Moral Masochism and the Cult of Suffering
Letters
Making War, Not Love: Gender and Sexuality in Russian Humor
Art (17 works) · Psychology (17 works) · Philosophy (14 works) · Psychoanalysis (12 works) · History (10 works) · Literature (8 works) · Theology (8 works) · Russian Literature and Bakhtin Studies (7 works) · Discourse Analysis and Cultural Communication (6 works) · Political science (6 works)