Deep Analysis of Anna Karenina Part Three: Do You Identify with Levin? (Chapters 1-3) (Patreon)

There is so much gold, so much rich psychological insight in the first six chapters of Part Three, that I have split these chapters into three separate videos.

Each video touches upon different psychological and philosophical principles. Everything from Maslow's hierarchy of needs, Hofstede's cultural dimensions, Aristotle's virtues, and four stages of competence, to meditations on Tolstoy's anhedonia, insanity in Anna, how to cure depression through work ("arbeitskur"), and how far we identify with Levin.

As usual, I have bolded three interesting topic timestamps below in this video, in case you don't have time to watch the whole thing.

• 0:00 Showing off my beautiful Constance Garnett to you
• 0:20 Why I will never sell my copy of Anna Karenina 
• 2:10 Even in times of trouble, keep reading your books
• 5:15 Tolstoy's struggle with depression 
• 7:30 The Muzhik-master tension
• 10:31 Tolstoy's art of binary and juxtaposition
• 15:30 Do you find scriptural-style reading useful?
• 17:46 The similarities between Levin and Anna
• 19:00 Insanity in the individual vs the masses (Nietzsche)
• 20:00 Is Anna suffering from a mental disorder? 

In the next two videos on chapters I-VI of Part Three, we'll get into some relatively deep meditations on the best way to deal with mental health issues (thank you, Levin) and then we'll spend more time with Anna and Vronsky.

How are you enjoying Part Three?

And might I tempt you, at some point, to indulge in Shakespeare's first sonnet? We've got a deep-dive analysis of the poem, and it might be interesting to hear knowing that Tolstoy thoroughly despised Shakespeare and did not think him good art.