The Death of Ivan Ilych

Tolstoy, Leo

doi:10.7326/0003-4819-128-11-199806010-00018

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“…What if we took the long-known [37][38][39][40][41][42][43] but oft-forgotten [44][45][46] truths of generalist wisdom seriously? How would we redesign our systems?…”

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The Generalist Approach

Stange¹

2009

The Annals of Family Medicine

113

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“…What if we took the long-known [37][38][39][40][41][42][43] but oft-forgotten [44][45][46] truths of generalist wisdom seriously? How would we redesign our systems?…”

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The Generalist Approach

Stange¹

2009

The Annals of Family Medicine

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“…He "had not spent his life as he should have done", and he "struggled", we are told, "as a man condemned to death struggles at the hands of the executioner, knowing that he cannot save himself". 3 The analogy between being condemned to death in the special sense of facing judicial execution, and being condemned to death in the way all of us are, has tremendous emotional and literary resonance. Dr Johnson was right, no doubt, to say that "when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully".…”

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The Last Moment

Rée¹

2017

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Mortality and Its Timings

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“…In his novella The Death of Ivan lllyich (14), Tolstoy writes of the tragedy of living and dying without being understood and personally cared for by those closest to oneself. Ivan lllyich was a man who while progressively deteriorating in health found that "no one gave him the compassion he craved" (p. 104).…”

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The Secret that Guilty Confessions Fail to Disclose

Goldberg¹

2002

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Theodor Reik (1), in his Compulsion to Confess, presents a case study of a man who admits to a crime he did not commit. Reik indicates that the man's confession is actually valid, insofar as the confessor unconsciously believes that he has to castigate himself because he desired to do precisely what the murderer did. Consequently, his self-abnegation is impelled from his unconscious realization that he is no better in his heart than the murderer was by his actual deed. His sense of guilt was unconscious, Reik tells us, because nothing is more injurious to our self-regard than evidence of our dark urges.Reik's explanation is based upon the psychoanalytic contention that reverses the conventional view of thought and deed. This notion claims that psychical reality, not material reality, is the basis for psychological life. Consequently, dreams and "forbidden" fantasies can be of such illicit tenor that they can exceed even the import of actual villainous deeds; and therefore, they must be repressed from conscious awareness.In my work with destructive clients (2, 3), I have found suspect the notion that our deepest fear is that we are malevolent. By the use of intuitive insights about the nature of confession in the writings of three master literary psychologists and from clinical evidence in a case study of a client who confessed to a crime, I seek here to show the actual psychodynamics at work in the confession of a crime.

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The Death of Ivan Ilych

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