The Failure of the Extraordinary Man: Cognitive Dissonance and Moral Fragmentation of Raskolnikov in Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment
International Journal of Emerging Multidisciplinaries Social Science July 16, 2026 Ali Zaib Akram, Saima Bashir
There has been much critical writing about guilt, morality and psychological agony in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel Crime and Punishment. The psychological conflicts involved in Raskolnikov’s divided consciousness have been a subject of numerous psychoanalytical interpretations, but the connection between his self-fashioning of ideology and psychological conflict is open to further analysis. In...