Tolstoy openly despised women, yet in his greatest novels he created some of the most fascinating women characters. Holbrook draws on concepts and insights from object-relations and existentialist psycho-analysis to explain this bewildering contradiction. He suggests that behind Tolstoy's problems with women and sex was having his mother's primary maternal preoccupation withdrawn at a very early age.
- ISBN10 0838637019
- ISBN13 9780838637012
- Publish Date 1 June 1997
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 27 September 2013
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Associated University Presses
- Imprint Fairleigh Dickinson University Press,U.S.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 273
- Language English