| The primary focus of this study was to answer the methodological question: What are the primary components of a psychobiography of Rasputin, using a depth psychological emphasis? Sub-questions were: (1) What was the personal psychology of Rasputin? (2) How did the personality of Rasputin interact and interface with other personalities in his interpersonal relationships? (3) How did history, culture, environment, religion and the collective unconscious influence the life and times of Rasputin?;Using the hermeneutical method combined with a case history approach, biographical, historical, philosophical, and religious sources were examined to establish a general framework of meaning in regard to the personal and collective psychological milieu surrounding the life and times of the subject. Personal, interpersonal, environmental, historical, cultural, religious, archetypal, and imaginal influences were identified and discussed.;This study revealed that the fates of Rasputin, the Russian Imperial Family, and the Russian collective were inextricably intertwined in an epic story of conscious and unconscious psychological forces of history that move beyond the microcosm of individual psychology to approach the macrocosm of the universal collective. |
