Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0007713, Sun, 6 Apr 2003 16:13:12 -0700

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Freud, dreams, and VN
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EDNOTE. As an aside--among the unpublished VN papers there is a "dream
diary' from the sixties in which was, inter alia, trying to test the
theories of J.W. Dunne, a British enthusiast who tries to use dream evidence
to argue that time was no linear but circumambient. There are traces of
Dunne's theories in ADA. A Russian scholar (Glushanok?) has written about
this.
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> Further question might be: which works of Freud did Nabokov read? and
> did his opinions react to those of adulatory disciples. Probably
> neither dream theorist got it right concerning the purpose of dreaming,
> while each made similar but also unique observations on how dreams are
> formed. Nabokov, but not Freud, identified that dreams take place [are
> staged] in actual, remembered locales.
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