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Alexey Sklyarenko: Another mention of Nabokov-Sirin in Ehrenburg's "People, Years, Life" (Book Three, 15):" Recognizing the talent of the budding emigre writer Nabokov-Sirin, Babel said: "He can write but has nothing to write about." (about Proust: "A great writer. Yet, boring... Perhaps, he too was bored to describe all this?") " Alexey Sklyarenko (who apologizes for writing about VN to the Freud list).
JM: After Babel tumbled, and only then, did the excitement begin because people had to find a new way to say old things.Just like any ordinary linving entity who must strive to surpass natural obstacles...But you are right. All that old-fashioned Freudian thing can be boring, even to me when I try to compare here Nabokov's Freud (crystallized in the early twenties) to Nabokov's writings.
Maurice Couturier: Few, if any, Nabokovians may have heard of Michel Onfray's important essay, "Le crepuscule d'une idole. L'affabulation freudienne" (Grasset 2010) which triggered a heated debate in France (should I say in Paris?)....an attack against Freud as a scientist which denounces his bad faith and his incompetence as a therapist. Some of you will be surprised to read these lines...Lacanian psychoanalysis provides, in my opinion, a strong theory of the human psyche which casts new light on the psychological make-up of Nabokov's characters and contributes to a better...understanding of the unfolding of the stories contained in his novels.
JM: I hope M.Couturier is not vindicating the use of "Applied Psychoanalysis" to Nabokov...But I can only agree with his very actual Parisian conclusion: Lacan's seminars and articles are instrumental and they "cast new light" on various fields of human understanding and "on the psychologycal make-up" of any good writer's characters and plots.
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JM: After Babel tumbled, and only then, did the excitement begin because people had to find a new way to say old things.Just like any ordinary linving entity who must strive to surpass natural obstacles...But you are right. All that old-fashioned Freudian thing can be boring, even to me when I try to compare here Nabokov's Freud (crystallized in the early twenties) to Nabokov's writings.
Maurice Couturier: Few, if any, Nabokovians may have heard of Michel Onfray's important essay, "Le crepuscule d'une idole. L'affabulation freudienne" (Grasset 2010) which triggered a heated debate in France (should I say in Paris?)....an attack against Freud as a scientist which denounces his bad faith and his incompetence as a therapist. Some of you will be surprised to read these lines...Lacanian psychoanalysis provides, in my opinion, a strong theory of the human psyche which casts new light on the psychological make-up of Nabokov's characters and contributes to a better...understanding of the unfolding of the stories contained in his novels.
JM: I hope M.Couturier is not vindicating the use of "Applied Psychoanalysis" to Nabokov...But I can only agree with his very actual Parisian conclusion: Lacan's seminars and articles are instrumental and they "cast new light" on various fields of human understanding and "on the psychologycal make-up" of any good writer's characters and plots.
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