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Epiphany in autobiography: The quantum changes of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy

✍ Scribed by Martin Bidney

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2004
Tongue
English
Weight
82 KB
Volume
60
Category
Article
ISSN
0021-9762

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✦ Synopsis

Abstract

The quantum changes of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy are clarified by the partly overlapping concept of a literary epiphany. The qualities of an epiphanyβ€”intensity, resonance, and mysteryβ€”are much like the vividness and surprise of a quantum change (which also is felt to be beneficent and permanent). Epiphanic intensity and mystery reinforce the quantum attributes of love and lasting transformation in Dostoevsky's sudden memory of the motherlike tenderness of the peasant Marey. Tolstoy underlines the quantum effects of the embracing light seen in A Confession, but this epiphany is more abstract and attenuated than Dostoevsky's Diary episode. Tolstoy's earlier memoir shows how the shock of identity questioning introduces a complicating factor: the trauma of remorse. Clinical implications of the two authors' quantum‐change accounts are discussed. Β© 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Clin Psychol/In Session.

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