The split subject of ‘Russian’ history in A Disgraceful Affair – Skverny Anekdot

This article situates Dostoevsky’s short story A Disgraceful Affair in a Lacanian, psychoanalytic context in order to interrogate Bakhtin’s reading of Dostoevsky’s poetics through his concepts of the ‘carnivalesque’, the ‘chronotope’, and the ‘threshold’. Focusing on ‘shame’ and ‘repetition’ as func...

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Published in:Studies in East European thought Vol. 77; no. 5; pp. 899 - 919
Main Author: Ascroft, Edward
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 01.10.2025
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects:
Chronotope
Consciousness
Dialectics
Education
Failure
Genre
History
Idealism
Language
Novellas
Otherness
Peace
Philosophy
Poetics
Political Philosophy
Political Science
Poststructuralism
Psychoanalysis
Realism
Repetition
Russian literature
Shame
Short stories
Social criticism & satire
Subjectivity
Weddings
Bakhtin
Shame
Repetition
Lacan
Short story
Threshold
ISSN:0925-9392, 1573-0948
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Summary:This article situates Dostoevsky’s short story A Disgraceful Affair in a Lacanian, psychoanalytic context in order to interrogate Bakhtin’s reading of Dostoevsky’s poetics through his concepts of the ‘carnivalesque’, the ‘chronotope’, and the ‘threshold’. Focusing on ‘shame’ and ‘repetition’ as functions of Otherness in this story, it will analyse the aesthetic means by which Dostoevsky constructs a ‘new’ pathological subject. It argues that in this neglected short story Dostoevsky’s protagonist can be analysed much like the ‘subjects’ of poststructuralism, creating a split subject of ‘Russian’ history.
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ISSN:0925-9392
1573-0948
DOI:10.1007/s11212-024-09648-z