Here Dostoevsky precedes the psychologist Adler in portraying the inferiority complex and what it does to its owner. Freud precedes him when he describes to us the daughter Netochka, who loves her father (her stepfather) and hates her mother. There is an emotion between the two girls, which is the love of an individual of the same sex, which Freud tells us about: kisses, hugs, concessions, and paths.
The third part begins with the story of the lady who treats the orphan well and takes her to her and loves her, so the boys love her. But Netochka senses that there is something behind the mistress of the house's apparent concession. She notices that the lady hides anxiety, turmoil, and fear whenever she appears happier and calmer. Then she discovers the secret: in a book by Walter Scott, she stumbles upon an old letter sent to Alexandrine Mikhailovna by a young man confessing his love, and leaving her forever because the people around them started spreading gossip. Netochka understands the secret of the grief of the "innocent accused" who is tormented by her husband because of this letter.
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