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I'm going to introduce this episode.

In this episode, I will be going through Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment.

Fyodor Dostoevsky is one of my favorite authors, and this is an author that really came

before an influenced, important people, such as Nietzsche, Freud, and a multiplicity of

other psychological thought.

His book is deeply psychological, philosophical, it's provoking, it's darkness and light.

Freud stated at one point, Dostoevsky cannot be understood without psychoanalysis.

He isn't in need of it because he illustrates it in himself in every character and every

sentence.

That was in a letter to Stefan Zewik.

Another psychologist, Lewis Berger, said about Dostoevsky, what is most characteristic

in Dostoevsky is the presence of multiple points of view.

He is never as an author completely identified with one character.

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