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Why, asks Daniel Rancour-Laferriere in this controversial book, has Russia been a country of suffering? Russian history, religion, folklore, and literature are rife with suffering. The plight of Anna Karenina, the submissiveness of serfs in the 16th and 17th centuries, ancient religious tracts emphasizing humility as the mother of virtues, the trauma of the Bolshevik revolution, the current economic upheavals wracking the country-- these are only a few of the symptoms of what The Slave Soul of Russia identifies as a veritable cult of suffering that has been centuries in the making. Bringing to light dozens of examples of self-defeating activities and behaviors that have become an integral component of the Russian psyche, Rancour-Laferriere convincingly illustrates how masochism has become a fact of everyday life in Russia. Until now, much attention has been paid to the psychology of Russia's leaders and their impact on the country's condition. Here, for the first time, is a compelling portrait of the Russian people's psychology.

National characteristics, Russian. --- Masochism --- Self-destructive behavior --- Russia (Federation) --- Civilization. --- Psychic masochism --- Russian national characteristics --- Self-destructiveness --- Paraphilias --- Personality disorders --- Sadomasochism --- Suffering --- Psychology, Pathological --- History of civilization --- Russia

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This collection tells the story of the case study genre at a time when it became the genre par excellence for discussing human sexuality across the humanities and life sciences. It is a transcontinental journey from the imperial world of fin-de-siecle Central Europe to the interwar metropolises of Weimar Germany and to the United States of America in the post-war years. Foregrounding the figures of case study pioneers, and highlighting their often radical engagements with the genre, the book scrutinises the case writing practices of Sigmund Freud and his predecessor sexologist Richard von Krafft-Ebing; writers including Leopold von Sacher-Masoch and Alfred Doblin; Weimar intellectuals such as Erich Wulffen and psychoanalyst Viola Bernard. The results are important new insights into the continuing legacy of such writers and into the agency increasingly claimed by the readerships that emerged with the development of modernity.

Sexology. --- Psychoanalysis. --- Knowledge, Sociology of. --- Case method. --- Psychoanalysis --- Sexology --- Humanities --- Sociology --- Case method --- Case studies. --- Case studies --- History. --- Case history method --- Case study method --- Education --- Knowledge, Theory of (Sociology) --- Sociology of knowledge --- Communication --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Public opinion --- Social epistemology --- Sex --- Social theory --- Social sciences --- Learning and scholarship --- Classical education --- Psychology --- Psychology, Pathological --- History --- Methodology --- Historiography --- Literature --- Alfred Döblin --- Case study --- Leopold von Sacher-Masoch --- Psychiatry --- Richard von Krafft-Ebing --- Sadomasochism --- Sigmund Freud