Warum tötete Raskol’nikov eigentlich? Motivierung im Lichte einer psychohistorischen Motivation
WHY DID RASKOLNIKOV KILL, ACTUALLY? 'MOTIVIROVKA' (RATIONALE) IN THE LIGHT OF PSYCHO-HISTORICAL MOTIVATION

Summary/Abstract: This paper shows that the text of the novel Crime and Punishment places plot and characters in the context of a specific historical epoch. The epoch implies a specific psychological structure of the characters. One aspect of this psychological structure is singled out and demonstrated on the basis of its intra-fictional as well as its extra-fictional motivating effect. In this way, the old riddle of why Raskolnikov actually became a murderer is solved.

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