Searching the Internet for an (inexistent?) English translation of VN's Russian essay on Freudianism "Что всякий должен знать?" (
What Everyone should Know?
) that might have answered some of Jansy's queries, I came across "Viennese Waltz: Freud in Nabokov's
Despair
," an article by Joanna Trzeciak (
http://complit.dukejournals.org/cgi/reprint/61/1/54?maxtoshow=&hits=40&RESULTFORMAT=&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=0&resourcetype=HWCIT
, PDF)
Alexey Sklyarenko