%0 Journal Article
%T The Brothers Karamazov, affective neuroscience, and reconsolidation of memories
%A Nina P Straus
%J Culture & Psychology
%@ 1461-7056
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/1354067X17738983
%X Why do Dostoevskian bodies throb, sob, and grimace in ways that seem so far from the civilized protocols of, for example, Henry James¡¯ exhibitions of emotions? How precisely does the concept of unconscious motivation serve interpretation when complicated by neuroscientific ideas of ¡°the body as ground reference,¡± of ¡°the neural self¡± as a ¡°repeatedly reconstructed biological state¡± that records memories. This essay explores the implications of affective neuroscience research (Panksepp, Damasio, Solms) for interpreting Dostoevsky¡¯s The Brothers Karamazov, particularly those scenes in which the characters access memories and display physical symptoms which appear subcortical
%K Memory
%K literary criticism
%K affective neuroscience
%K The Brothers Karamazov
%K Descartes error
%K subcortical
%K Panksepp
%K Damasio
%K Solms
%K soul
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1354067X17738983