Lolita

[jlb4tlb]

This week "Thug Notes" reviews and discusses "Lolita." So grab some and enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kMTSvg3PG4

[kelby_lake]

I enjoyed that. Fun

[hawthorns]

I wish we had more thugs like that in our area.

[Dave123]

Does someone know about Nabokov's free associations in Lolita? If someone who studied literature answered me I would be much obliged, thanks in advance.

[R.F. Schiller]

Does someone know about Nabokov's free associations in Lolita? If someone who studied literature answered me I would be much obliged, thanks in advance.

I've studied Nabokov, but I'm not entirely familiar what "free associations" are? Can you elaborate a little? Wikipedia tells me it is a type of psychoanalysis devised by Sigmund Freud. Nabokov hated Freud probably more than any other thinker that he was ever familiar with, calling him things like "The Viennese Witch Doctor" and "The Viennese Quack". This was because Freud's idea of the son wanting to kill the father and penetrate the mother was entirely offensive to him - he had great nostalgia for his childhood and considered it almost perfect. Lolita is somewhat poking fun at Freud and psychoanalysis.

[Dave123]

[QUOTE=R.F. Schiller;1273563]I've studied Nabokov, but I'm not entirely familiar what "free associations" are? Can you elaborate a little? Wikipedia tells me it is a type of psychoanalysis devised by Sigmund Freud. Nabokov hated Freud probably more than any other thinker that he was ever familiar with, calling him things like "The Viennese Witch Doctor" and "The Viennese Quack". This was because Freud's idea of the son wanting to kill the father and penetrate the mother was entirely offensive to him - he had great nostalgia for his childhood and considered it almost perfect. Lolita is somewhat poking fun at Freud and psychoanaly
Stream of consciousness is controlled by the principle of free associations, It has to do with Nabokov's stream of consciousness somehow, but I am not sure what is the connection, I am stuck in this topic, don't know what to write, desperate as a housewife