Rereading Russian Poetry

by Stephanie Sandler

In this provocative book Elyn R. Saks focuses closely on what hermeneutic psychoanalysis is, how psychoanalysts- approaches to it differ, and how patients respond to the various interpretive models of treatment. Saks defines and analyzes five models, arriving at important conclusions about what aspects of psychoanalytic treatment patients should accept and what they should reject.

384 pages, Hardcover

First published April 10, 1999

About the author

Stephanie Sandler is Ernest E. Monrad Professor and Chair of the Slavic Department at Harvard. She has written about the Pushkin era and about modern myths of Pushkin, including Commemorating Pushkin: Russia’s Myth of a National Poet (Stanford University Press, 2004). She is a co-author of A History of Russian Literature (Oxford University Press, 2018), and a co-editor of Ol’ga Sedakova: stikhi, smysly, prochteniia (NLO, 2017), an English-language version of which should appear just before Your Language My Ear commences (University of Wisconsin Press, 2019). She has translated several contemporary poets, including Elena Fanailova, Elena Shvarts, Olga Sedakova, Mara Malanova, and Alexandra Petrova. She is someday hoping to complete The Freest Speech in Russia: Poetry After 1989.