Section outline

  • Assigned reading:

    Lev Vygotsky and Alexander Luria, "Introduction to the Russian translation of Freud's Beyond the Pleasure Principle" (1925), from The Vygotsky Reader, eds. R. van der Veer and J. Valsiner (1994), 10–18.

    A. Zalkind, "The twelve sexual commandments of the revolutionary proletariat" (1924) [in class] [Russian ] (Cf. 1926 collection of essays.)

    V. N. Voloshinov, "Critique of Freudianism" (1927), The Bakhtin Reader: Selected Writings of Bakhtin, Medvedev and Voloshinov, ed. Pam Morris (1994), 38–48.

    Further resources:

    Alexander Etkind, Eros of the Impossible: The History of Psychoanalysis in Russia (1997).

    Martin A. Miller, Freud and the Bolsheviks: Psychoanalysis in Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union (1998).

    Eric Naiman, Sex in Public: The Incarnation of Early Soviet Ideology (1997).

    In addition to readily available resources in Russian libraries, see also the library of texts assembled by Patrick Seriot, including works by Luria and Voloshinov. 

    Е. Bergler, "Психоаналіз. Суть та значіння науки проф. З. Фрейда," Червоний шлях no. 6-7 (1923): 119-135. [at libraria.ua]

    Ernst Schneider, "Baiļu psicholoģija," Izglītības Ministrijas Mēnešraksts no. 8 (1920). 

    Lucijas Grāvelsin, "Psichoanalize," Mūsu Nākotne no. 3 (1 May 1931).

    Millija Vosvinieks, "Freuda psīchoanalitiskā metode," Domas no. 8 (1 August 1931).