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In Nabokov's Mimicry of Freud: Art as Science, Teckyoung Kwon
examines the manner in which Nabokov invited his readers to engage
in his ongoing battle against psychoanalysis. Kwon looks at
Nabokov's use of literary devices that draw upon psychology and
biology, characters that either imitate Freud or Nabokov in
behavior or thought, and Jamesian concepts of time, memory, and
consciousness in The Defense, Despair, Lolita, Pale Fire, and Ada.
As Kwon notes, the transfiguration of biological mimicry and memory
into an artistic form involves numerous components, including
resemblance with a difference, contingency, the double, riddles,
games, play, theatricality, transgression, metamorphosis, and
combinational concoction. Nabokov, as a mimic, functions as a poet
who is also a scientist, while his model, Freud, operates as a
scientist who is also a poet. Both writers were gifted humorists,
regarding art as a formidable vehicle for the repudiation of all
forms of totality. This book is recommended for scholars of
psychology, literary studies, film studies, and philosophy.
In Nabokov's Mimicry of Freud: Art as Science, Teckyoung Kwon
examines the manner in which Nabokov invited his readers to engage
in his ongoing battle against psychoanalysis. Kwon looks at
Nabokov's use of literary devices that draw upon psychology and
biology, characters that either imitate Freud or Nabokov in
behavior or thought, and Jamesian concepts of time, memory, and
consciousness in The Defense, Despair, Lolita, Pale Fire, and Ada.
As Kwon notes, the transfiguration of biological mimicry and memory
into an artistic form involves numerous components, including
resemblance with a difference, contingency, the double, riddles,
games, play, theatricality, transgression, metamorphosis, and
combinational concoction. Nabokov, as a mimic, functions as a poet
who is also a scientist, while his model, Freud, operates as a
scientist who is also a poet. Both writers were gifted humorists,
regarding art as a formidable vehicle for the repudiation of all
forms of totality. This book is recommended for scholars of
psychology, literary studies, film studies, and philosophy.
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