About the book: 2021 / This is not just a fictional story. This is a healing book; It was not for nothing that it was announced in the first volume of “The Contemporary History of Russian Psychoanalysis.” Just kidding, of course. In fact, only those who perform (consciously or unconsciously) their rite of passage (boys in puberty, men in mid-life crisis and other poor souls at life's crossroads) can expect a therapeutic effect. For others, this story is just a placebo. But don’t underestimate placebos; sometimes they can work real miracles.