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Re: THOUGHTS--Lolita and the Viennese child woman
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PS to "Freud's meaning, though, is clearly stated in his extensive works (there's no need to interpret them any further). Wittels accusation..."
In the sentece enclosed by parenthesis I should have clarified that "there's no need to interpret them any further - concerning Freud's ideas about frenzied sex and repression."
The disordered spelling of Wittels's name is an unfortunate consequence of "indignatio tremens."
btw: When Wittels observes that Irma "is the exemplary alternative to our modern neurasthenia. The opposite of a hysteric, she articulates her desire unambiguously and directly. Unlike her civilised contemporaries, she is not crippled by ambivalence" the entire sentence reeks of amateurish mix-ups, such as proposing an "exemplary alternative" to social ills, the imprecision of the sweeping "our modern neurasthenia", the untypical hilarious "she articulates her desire".
Wittels confuses "ambiguity" and "ambivalence," with "conflict" (each word, when applied in the context of mental-illness has a precise aura of meanings.) The word "ambivalence" in psychiatric circles was coined by Bleuler in 1911. I wonder how the verb "articulates" appears in the German original (it sounds so "postmodern"...).
Alexey Sklyarenko: In my previous post on Pale Fire I quoted an excerpt from Tynyanov's story Wax Person...What I missed is that шестипалый (six-fingered man, a character in Tynyanov's story, live exhibit and guide in Peter's Kunstkammer), конь крылат и змей рогат (a winged horse and horned serpent mentioned by the six-fingered man) remind one of шестикрылый серафим (the six-winged seraph) that appeared to Pushkin's Prophet and put into his mouth a serpent's wise sting instead of his sinful human tongue...
JM: The image Pushkin's lines on the Prophet conjured in me was related to a Greek road-crossing. There, another future prophet, Tiresias, encountered two serpents engaged in copulation. Instead of a six-winged seraph and a biblical God, one can expect a host of Olympic deities and even Pegasus hovering about. .
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In the sentece enclosed by parenthesis I should have clarified that "there's no need to interpret them any further - concerning Freud's ideas about frenzied sex and repression."
The disordered spelling of Wittels's name is an unfortunate consequence of "indignatio tremens."
btw: When Wittels observes that Irma "is the exemplary alternative to our modern neurasthenia. The opposite of a hysteric, she articulates her desire unambiguously and directly. Unlike her civilised contemporaries, she is not crippled by ambivalence" the entire sentence reeks of amateurish mix-ups, such as proposing an "exemplary alternative" to social ills, the imprecision of the sweeping "our modern neurasthenia", the untypical hilarious "she articulates her desire".
Wittels confuses "ambiguity" and "ambivalence," with "conflict" (each word, when applied in the context of mental-illness has a precise aura of meanings.) The word "ambivalence" in psychiatric circles was coined by Bleuler in 1911. I wonder how the verb "articulates" appears in the German original (it sounds so "postmodern"...).
Alexey Sklyarenko: In my previous post on Pale Fire I quoted an excerpt from Tynyanov's story Wax Person...What I missed is that шестипалый (six-fingered man, a character in Tynyanov's story, live exhibit and guide in Peter's Kunstkammer), конь крылат и змей рогат (a winged horse and horned serpent mentioned by the six-fingered man) remind one of шестикрылый серафим (the six-winged seraph) that appeared to Pushkin's Prophet and put into his mouth a serpent's wise sting instead of his sinful human tongue...
JM: The image Pushkin's lines on the Prophet conjured in me was related to a Greek road-crossing. There, another future prophet, Tiresias, encountered two serpents engaged in copulation. Instead of a six-winged seraph and a biblical God, one can expect a host of Olympic deities and even Pegasus hovering about. .
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