The existential psychotherapist reflects on the character of the character and how he would appear today. Than the aristocrat from the novel by Fedor Dostoevsky resembles one of our friends?

If you were born in an aristocratic prosperous family with a strong father and no less strong mother, life seems to you a real adventure. At first, we perceive the young and beautiful Aglaju as a positive antithesis Nastasier Filippovna, wounded by children’s injuries and exhausted by passions.

The charm inherent in Aglaya, the courage in judgments and the desire to break out of the circle of the middle aristocracy give us the impression that she is a progressive and original girl. But then it becomes clear that neither one nor the other passion of Prince Myshkin can even stand this life. One goes into self -destruction, the other in fantasies about himself, about the world, about others.

Youth and, probably, a prosperous childhood, the feeling of their almost limitless forces creates in Aglaya, on the one hand, the illusion that she can bless the whole world, making something significant for the social good, on the other hand-the unshakable conviction that she is that shehe wants and can get everything he wants from the world, and preferably immediately.

Aglaya, like her prototype – the young idealist Apollinaria Suslova, who became Dostoevsky’s mistress and did not forgive him the lack of complete dedication – wants to love not a real person, but an idealized image. So she perceives Prince Myshkin: “I surrendered to him loving without asking without counting. And he had to do the same. He did not do it, and I threw it “.

Aglaya is not able to grow up and leave illusions. Having married the Polish revolutionary, who captivated her with “extraordinary nobility of her tormented by suffering on the Fatherland of the Soul,” she realizes a teenage protest against her class, parental values and tries to be who is essentially not, a revolutionary.

Aglaya now

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to all. If there is no shortage, personal deficiency, then there is no motive to get from life what needs. And with a meeting with reality a problem looms, if you get everything from life, what you want. As a result, the small realization of themselves in reality leads such young people to the fact that it remains in the world of ideas. It is easily involved in them and it is difficult to part with them, since life is often more ordinary, easier and at the same time – worse than fantasies.