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From: Ben Walsh <benw@meta.dublin.iona.ie>
At 01:45 PM 1/29/98 -0800, you wrote:
>From: Brad Buchsbaum <brad@petlab.mssm.edu>
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>I do not think Nabokov ever writes at length about the reasons for his
>detestation of Freud. In general, though, his contempt for Freud is
>along the same lines as his contempt for Marx--that is, he cannot
>tolerate systems of thought which neglect the individual
I think Karl Popper's "The Open Society and its Enemies" - wherein Freud,
Marx & Plato are given a throrough going-over, is probably worth mention.
Popper's basic reasons for detesting them shares the same intellectually,
classically Liberal (in the European sense) roots as Nabokov's (I don't
know what, if anything, VN thought about Plato, but it can't have been good).
ben
At 01:45 PM 1/29/98 -0800, you wrote:
>From: Brad Buchsbaum <brad@petlab.mssm.edu>
>
>I do not think Nabokov ever writes at length about the reasons for his
>detestation of Freud. In general, though, his contempt for Freud is
>along the same lines as his contempt for Marx--that is, he cannot
>tolerate systems of thought which neglect the individual
I think Karl Popper's "The Open Society and its Enemies" - wherein Freud,
Marx & Plato are given a throrough going-over, is probably worth mention.
Popper's basic reasons for detesting them shares the same intellectually,
classically Liberal (in the European sense) roots as Nabokov's (I don't
know what, if anything, VN thought about Plato, but it can't have been good).
ben