Psycho-Analytical Approach to Raskolnikov in Crime and Punishment The essential factors of psycho-analysis that are important in a interpretation of Raskolnikov's behavior in the novel Crime and Punishment, and whose conflict results in Raskolnikov's becoming a criminal are the id, the superego, and the ego. We see that these three parts of Raskolnikov’s psyche attribute to his strange behavior and in the end his fate as a criminal. Before beginning an assessment of Raskolnikov’s psyche we must discuss Raskolnikov's background, he is an intellectual, a student, and we see obvious effects of an over used intellect througho