title: Lenin, sexuality and psychoanalysis.
abstract: While Trotsky's relatively favourable adherence to Freudian ideas is well documented, little is known about Lenin's attitude toward psychoanalysis. The author's extensive research shows that, far from being the follower of Freudian ideas depicted by some historians, the father of the October Revolution rejected psychoanalytic theory and, in particular, the perspective he considered "idealistic" and the importance attributed to sexuality. Lenin's prudish personality, the influence of his wife Nadezhda Krupskaya and their ideology resulted in the exclusion of psychoanalysis from the construction of the New Man that Marxism was planning to undertake in Russia.
authors.affiliation: Université de Basse-Normandie, Caen.
authors.forename: Jacquy
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Chemouni
mesh_terms: D003466:Cultural Characteristics / Q000266:history; D005619:Freudian Theory / Q000266:history; D049673:History, 20th Century; D007398:Interpersonal Relations / Q000266:history; D010551:Personality; D011572:Psychoanalysis / Q000193:education / Q000266:history; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D012426:Russia / Q000208:ethnology; D012725:Sexual Behavior / Q000208:ethnology / Q000266:history / Q000502:physiology / Q000523:psychology; D019529:Sexuality / Q000208:ethnology / Q000266:history / Q000502:physiology / Q000523:psychology; D012922:Social Change / Q000266:history