Melancholia Becomes Electric: The Dead Mother as Prophetess of Revolution in Blok’s “Шаги Командора” by Timothy Williams

“…The silent, ambivalent, un-dead ‘Dead Mother’ later theorized by André Green thus replaces the Phallic Mother and pre-Oedipal mother of Blok’s previous periods (preceding and immediately succeeding the failed 1905 Revolution) as the embodiment of hopes for a revolutionary cataclysm, likewise superseding the phallogocentric Law represented by the punishing patriarchal Commander. …”
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