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CHW wrote: ...what Robert Graves called the proleptic nature of literary creation...A burr, or piece of fluff, which has lodged in memory ... was the comment, made I think by a little girl, and embryonic authoress: "How can I know what I mean until I see what I say?"
I recall a British psychanalyst happily rubbing his hands while addressing his audience and begining his lecture with: - " I can't wait to hear what I have to say tonight".
He was a Kleinian, of course. Lacan might have recognized in that embryonic authoress a clear perception of the distinction bt. rational thought and the workings of her unconscious.
Language is much richer than we, who employ it and consider ourselves its "masters", surmise.
Most Nabokovian verbal links extend much beyond his wildest dreams, no?
Jansy
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I recall a British psychanalyst happily rubbing his hands while addressing his audience and begining his lecture with: - " I can't wait to hear what I have to say tonight".
He was a Kleinian, of course. Lacan might have recognized in that embryonic authoress a clear perception of the distinction bt. rational thought and the workings of her unconscious.
Language is much richer than we, who employ it and consider ourselves its "masters", surmise.
Most Nabokovian verbal links extend much beyond his wildest dreams, no?
Jansy
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