I'll have to check this out of the SF State library, do not know if it supercedes the three vols. by Robert C. Tucker.
The author, Daniel Rancour-Laferriere, is on the editorial board of a journal w/ Otto Kernberg and Jean Luc-Nancy, two heavyweights.
An ex-lover way into Lacan and Maria Callas, who has met Kernberg said he was an arrogrant prick. But, hey what's new.
Same author has a study of Gogol, " a UCB scholar, Simon Karlinsky, wrote a study a way back on him, said he was homosexual. "The Sexual Labyrinth of Nikolai Gogol." "A brilliant new biography that will long be prized for its illuminating psychological insights into Gogol's actions, its informative readings of his fiction and drama, and its own stylistic grace and vivacity."--Edmund White, Washington Post Book World
The publisher, Ardis, publishes lots of
translations and studies of Russian fiction.Edward
Mellen Press is a very interesting press, as well.
http://www.mellenpress.com/emp/index.cfm
http://www.ardisbooks.com/default.asp
http://www.psychomedia.it/jep/number12
13/contributors.htm
>...Daniel Rancour-Laferriere (b. 1943) is currently
Professor and Director of the Russian Program,
University of California, Davis. He holds a Ph.D. in
Slavic Languages and Literatures from Brown University
(1972). Currently he is completing a psychoanalytic
study of the veneration of religious icons in Russia.
Among his books: Five Russian Poems: Exercises in a
Theory of Poetry (Englewood, New Jersey: Transworld
Publishers, 1977). Sign and Subject: Semiotic and
Psychoanalytic Investigations Into Poetry (Lisse, The
Netherlands: Peter de Ridder Press, 1978), volume 14
of the series Studies in Semiotics. Out From Under
Gogol's Overcoat: A Psychoanalytic Study. (Ann Arbor,
Michigan: Ardis Publishers, 1982). Signs of the Flesh:
An Essay on the Evolution of Hominid Sexuality
(Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1985; reprinted by Indiana
University Press, 1992). The Mind of Stalin: A
Psychoanalytic Study (Ann Arbor, Michigan: Ardis
Publishers, 1988). Editor of Russian Literature and
Psychoanalysis (Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1989).
Signs of the Flesh: An Essay on the Evolution of
Hominid Sexuality (Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana
University Press, 1992). Tolstoy's Pierre Bezukhov: A
Psychoanalytic Study (London: Bristol Classical Press,
1993). Editor of Self-Analysis in Literary Study (New
York: New York University Press, 1994). The Slave Soul
of Russia: Moral Masochism and the Cult of Suffering
(New York: New York University Press, 1995). Tolstoy
on the Couch: Misogyny, Masochism and the Absent
Mother (London and New York: Macmillan, 1998). Russian
Nationalism from an Interdisciplinary Perspective:
Imagining Russia (Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen
Press, 2000). [darancourlaferriere at ucdavis.edu]
Michael Pugliese