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.