In a 1928 essay, Sigmund Freud argued that an author’s case of this medical condition was a reflection of “severe hysteria” over his father’s death. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this condition that causes Prince Myshkin to check into a Swiss clinic in Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s novel The Idiot.
ANSWER: epilepsy [accept word forms such as being epileptic; accept temporal lobe epilepsy; accept epileptic seizures; prompt on seizures]
[10h] A son of Dostoyevsky with this first name, who died from a seizure, inspired him to create a character with this first name who studies under Father Zosima at a monastery.
ANSWER: Alyosha [or Alexei; prompt on Alex; accept BUT DO NOT REVEAL Alyosha Fyodorovich Karamazov]
[10e] The epileptic Smerdyakov frames Dmitri for his father’s murder in this Dostoyevsky novel titled for the relationship between characters like Alyosha and Ivan.
ANSWER: The Brothers Karamazov [or The Karamazov Brothers or Brat’ya Karamazovy]
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