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Subject: Re : [NABOKV-L] Nabokov and Freud
Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2011 08:45:47 -0500
From: <stadlen@aol.com>
To: <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
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Jansy wrote:

<< To complicate matters even further, various translators from Freud's
German originals, have substituted Freud's terms by Greek or Latin
derivatives ( Id,Ego,Superego =  Es,Ich, Ueberich - Lytton Strachey's
choice, as was cathexis = Bezetzung) or, carelessly designated "Trieb"
as "Instinct" -  aso. >>

I am sorry to correct Jansy again so soon, but in accord with her own
project of clarifying names and terms I should point out that the
translator of Freud's Collected Works was not Lytton but James.

Anthony Stadlen

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