Abstract
The article discusses the comparison of the false prophet and false fool Ivan Yakovlevich Koreysha and Foma Fomich Opiskin. The mention of Koreisha in “The Village of Stepanchikov” helps explain the phenomenon of veneration of the “clown” and hanger-on, which later became known as the “cult of the mentally ill”. We can speak with confidence about Dostoevsky’s anthropological discovery: the writer identified signs of an “addictive” (dependent) personality, the phenomenon of which will be discovered by psychological science only in our days. The work shows the absurdity of cult dependence, the insignificance of the personality of the cult leader, the image of the “guru” as a “naked king”.
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