Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0002817, Sun, 8 Feb 1998 09:35:10 -0800

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Re: Pseudoanalysis (fwd)
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From: Kindlesan@aol.com

In a message dated 98-02-07 14:28:27 EST, Dieter Zimmer wrote:

<< In their mind, Freud seems to have
discovered sex and death, constructs completely unknown to mankind before
him. So they rejoice when they read a novel where people die and kill or
make love or don't or love or hate their parents or children, taking all
that as proof that Freud thought up the right insights after all. >>


i may be an ignorant child in the grand scheme of all this talk, but please
inform me, is this a gross overexaggeration of some kind? i find it hard to
believe, in a literal sense, that people credit one man for "discovering" sex
and death....i would presume that they were well aware of both in their life
before discovering the theories of Freud........in order to help me out,
if you desire, since i don't know that much, could you name some examples
of this apparent type of fanaticism?