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Re: Freudian or Nabokovian?
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Freudian or Nabokovian?Carolyn wrote that "Kinbote does not literally upset trash cans... These are metaphors for his attempts to make his presence known to Shade", something that is coherent with her point of view, but I'm not sure her perspective covers everything in PF. Also her arguments concerning rasping branches against a windowpane are not different from mine: if indeed there was no Kinbote outside to create the disturbances the stronger the suggestion of the Alderking's menacing shadow looming between the Shades.
The other inevitable conclusion from the blend bt. JS &CK, John Shade's "repressed homosexuality", inspite of VN's former comments about the predominance of single males and "Victorian suppressed homosexual elements" in RLS's story, I had not thought Nabokov would deliberately apply Freudian "repression " and "unconscious motivations" as essential elements for the unraveling of any novelistic plot, independently of his fascination with neurological and psychiatric disturbances and his almost too frequent references to them. But, of course, I may be completely wrong in my assumptions.
Jansy
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The other inevitable conclusion from the blend bt. JS &CK, John Shade's "repressed homosexuality", inspite of VN's former comments about the predominance of single males and "Victorian suppressed homosexual elements" in RLS's story, I had not thought Nabokov would deliberately apply Freudian "repression " and "unconscious motivations" as essential elements for the unraveling of any novelistic plot, independently of his fascination with neurological and psychiatric disturbances and his almost too frequent references to them. But, of course, I may be completely wrong in my assumptions.
Jansy
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