Vladimir Nabokov

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See page 414 of the 1st ed. of The Annotated Lolita, Note 3 to page 252
(252/3), Chapter 23 of the novel's second part.

A. Bouazza.
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PS: What a pity that Appel's annotations to "Lolita" are not followed by
an Index ( no irony intended). I wanted to check the psychiatrist he quoted
while mentioning fountainism and undinism since the only name that came to
my mind was Kraft-Ebbing (Psycopathia Sexualis) and I know this is
incorrect. Anyway, I think that the best way to proceed to understand
"lunacy" in Nabokov's works would be to check, like SB did, psychiatric
journals. I would also add standard texts like ...( now I remembered it)
Havelock Ellis' and VN's collection of newspaper clippings on the subject
of madness and perversion.

Wikipedia informs: "According to Ellis in My Life, his friends were much
amused at his being considered an expert on sex considering the fact that he
suffered from impotence until the age of 60, when he discovered that was
able to become aroused by the sight of a woman urinating. His Sexual
Inversion, the first English medical text book on homosexuality, co-authored
with John Addington Symonds, described the sexual relations of homosexual
men, something that Ellis did not consider to be a disease, immoral, or a
crime; a bookseller was prosecuted in 1897 for stocking it. Other
psychologically important concepts developed by Ellis include autoerotism
and narcissism, both of which were later taken on by Sigmund Freud."




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