Eros is impossible. The history of psychoanalysis in Russia. Etkind A.

Psychoanalysis quickly and peculiarly developed in the atmosphere of the Silver Age and the first futurist experiments of the Bolsheviks. In his history in Russia, the intellectual influences of Freud and Nietzsche were unusually intertwined. The book consists of chapters on different periods of the development of Russian psychoanalysis, which are interspersed with the stories of the life of famous Russian analysts and patients. The details investigate the love connection between K. Jung with the Russian psychoanalyst Sabina Spilrein. In the light of new materials about the friendship of M. Bulgakov with the first US ambassador to the USSR and Patient Freud William Bullit, a new interpretation of “Masters and Margarita” is given. The author found new archival materials.

The book opens a fascinating, previously almost unknown line of development of Russian thought. Psychoanalysts and poets Symbolists, Anthroposophists and Marxists, the stars of European Modern Culture and the NKVD agents - all of them are again found on these pages.

This is the first book of historian Alexander Etkind, Professor Cambridge and a number of European universities. One of the most famous Russian humanities, Etkind explores various topics of intellectual and cultural history, he published more than a dozen books in different languages.