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It is Dostoyevsky's second novel published after his novel The Humans.
It has a very interesting, strange and entertaining story, which is equivalent to the character created. Mr. Goladkin is such a character that I would like to express my apologies that he contains resentment, shyness, timidity, indecisiveness, restlessness, paranoia, contradictions, anxieties, division and defeatism.
However, his illness becomes inextricable when he is mocked by his colleagues at a fancy ball he attends and is expelled from this ball as a result of his strange behavior.
Mr. Golatkin, with all hell breaking loose in his head and being dragged into a stormy turmoil, eventually creates his superego and begins to struggle with it.
In other words, our author presents us the process before schizophrenia and the moment when schizophrenia broke out, with the grace of his tremendous intelligence and observation power.
Dostoyevsky also contributed to the science of psychology by portraying this character in his book. As a matter of fact, while there was not enough information about the diagnosis of schizophrenia at that time (1846), the fact that he used his genius to write such a wonderful novel on paranoid schizophrenia with his master pen deeply affected Freud.
It's a short, tiny but informative novel that you can both have fun and feel sad while reading.
It was also adapted into a movie under the name 'The Double' in 2013.