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A. Stadlen [ to B.Boyd's
suspicion that "HH kept CQ's name unchanged out of vindictiveness."]
...] this would be entirely in accord with the Freudian tradition...of
pretending to maintain rigorous confidentiality while simultaneously
flagrantly breaking it... I only established this fact about Freud
after Nabokov died.
JM: The assertion about a Freudian tradition is as
general as Nabokov's, when railing against the Vienna delegation, or
like Huxley's fake-beaver's interlocutor: "You make the
error of the Viennese. You exagerate the importance of sex."
Now, after at least half a century, we learn that the poet described in
Freud's article "On Transience", was R.M.Rilke, as we are cognizant
of the real names of The Wolf Man, of Anna O., the Rat Man and many
other illustrious patients who, by various means, wanted to have their
identities revealed or undersigned books about their experience with
Freud. They had a margin of freedom... In contrast, Humbert Humbert
didn't worry about preserving Lolita's memory, since the "Confessions"
would only be kept from publication while Lolita was alive. She was to
remain innocent of HH's manipulative voice and control.