"Freud is also mentioned (for the first and, one presumes, last time
in Soviet literature) in Ilf and Petrov's The Golden Calf (1931)"
I notice that Freud and psychoanalysis are
mentioned in the Prologue of Zoshchenko's Pered voskhodom solntsa
("Before the Sunrise," 1944). The Freudian method was never oficially
banned in Soviet Russia, but, I imagine, it was better to avoid all
mention of it. Small wonder that in the full form Zoshchenko's book
appeared only many years after the author's death (in
1959).
Alexey
Sklyarenko
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