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Text: Lolita Vladimir Nabokov

Critical Lens: Psychoanalytical

According to Durantaye in Vladimir Nabokov and Sigmund Freud, or a Particular Problem bring up an interesting point in knowing why the author decided to write a Lolita with the context it has. The article talks about how Nabokov disagreed with the beliefs of Sigmund Freud and how the past of a person affects who they are in the future. He also believes that everything a person does has a deeper meaning that leads to explain who the person is in reality and what is in their in unconscious. This would explain why he chose to give Humber Humbert a perfect-like childhood so that people can see that it does not really matter what you experienced.

Sigmund Freud is known as the father of psychology, since he was the first to say that our dreams play a huge part in revealing what goes on in our unconscious. He was also able to say that our conscious is only a fraction of our thought process. He introduce the ego,id and super ego. With Sigmund’s theories in mind as well as how much of a controversy he caused in the field of psychology, Nabokov was one of the many people that disagreed with his theory’s. Asa result, Nabokov was able to create this novel in order to prove that not all of Freud’s theories are true. The article states how Nabokov was able to interpret the ideas of Freud and how we was able to put them to test through pieces of art.