In the Nabokov&Wilson letters, VN
remembers Freud's theories while looking at the Tetons ("teats").
In "Pale Fire" there is a reference to "nippern," which might indicate
"nipples"( "The nippern (domed hills or "reeks") to the
south were broken by a rock and grass slope into light and shadow...),
in a similarly domed mountain range dislocated
to Zembla. Perhaps this has been noted before but only now did I
register it (full breasts are not something I associate to VN's female
characters).
Kinbote copied a paragraph in his notebook ( note to line 929): "By picking the nose in spite of all commands to the contrary, or
when a youth is all the time sticking his finger through his buttonhole... the
analytic teacher knows that the appetite of the lustful one knows no limit in
his phantasies.(Quoted by Prof. C. from Dr. Oskar Pfister, The Psychoanalytical
Method...), as if he were disdainful of its ancient
but familiar suggestive potential. How about TOoL's: "tickly-looking little holes ... the pin-sized pawns
penetrated easily"?
VN's hostilities towards Freud
remained, even in TOoL (both had at least one thing in common:
they thought they deserved a Nobel Prize), a fascinating fact in
itself.