The Analysis of the “Necrophilic Personality Type” in F. M. Dostoevsky's Novel “The Idiot”: an Attempt in Psycho-Mapping of Merchant Rogozhin

For the first time in the research literature on F. M. Dostoevsky, the paper considers the realization of the concept of the ‘necrophilic personality type’ in the novel The Idiot on the example of merchant Rogozhin. According to the researcher, ‘Russian Dante’ identified specific features of this type much earlier than it made E. Fromm in his main works. He also described them in detail, starting from the addiction to sadism, destructive models of interpersonal interaction, contemplation of ‘the faces of death’ and ending with the ‘colour scheme’ that is preferred by the personality of ‘thanatic temperament’. The author widely used a biographical method in the study.