The Little Demon Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology) Sometimes it moves in torrents

Sometimes it moves in torrents

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The Little Demon Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology) Sometimes it moves in torrentsMad, lascivious, sadistic and ridiculous, the provincial schoolteacher Peredonov torments his students and has hallucinatory fantasies about acts of savagery and degradation, yet to everyone else he is an upstanding member of society. A dark classic of Russia's silver age, this blackly funny novel recounts a schoolteacher's descent into sadism, arson and murder. Mad, lascivious, sadistic and ridiculous, the provincial schoolteacher Peredonov torments