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Re: THOUGHTS re: Freudians and anti-Freudians
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LH:The "you" was B Karp, who writes: "I think he was making fun of anti-Freudians as well as certain kinds of Freudians" Hence my question, as it seems to me that VN, whether he was right or wrong in doing so, never once made fun of anti-Freudians and ALWAYS made fun of ALL kinds of Freudians.
JM: Barrie Karp is not a "he", but a "she". Her name, like mine, can be as misleading as Evelynn's and, of course, Vivian (as in Vivian Darkbloom, represented as a female character in Kubrick's "Lolita" if my recollection still serves me).
Black and white generalizations, if we credit Alexander's Pope musings, are "a dangerous thing". And yet they endow Nabokov with a most wonderful consistency if he "never once"... "ALL"..."always". I shy away from imagining VN's readership as being merely comprised by these two categories: Freudians and Anti-Freudians.
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JM: Barrie Karp is not a "he", but a "she". Her name, like mine, can be as misleading as Evelynn's and, of course, Vivian (as in Vivian Darkbloom, represented as a female character in Kubrick's "Lolita" if my recollection still serves me).
Black and white generalizations, if we credit Alexander's Pope musings, are "a dangerous thing". And yet they endow Nabokov with a most wonderful consistency if he "never once"... "ALL"..."always". I shy away from imagining VN's readership as being merely comprised by these two categories: Freudians and Anti-Freudians.
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