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[EDNOTE. Sandy Klein notes this birthday tribute to Freud. - - SES]
Writings from the couch
The Australian - Sydney,Australia
Peter Craven
Was he more than a witchdoctor, as Vladimir Nabokov called him, and did
his system amount to more than a harmless mythology, as Jean-Paul Sartre
saw it? There are difficulties whichever way you to try to move towards
an answer.
Witchdoctors, after all, can effect things undreamed of by philosophy
and it may be that a systematic mythology that does no harm has high
claims.
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Writings from the couch
The Australian - Sydney,Australia
Peter Craven
Was he more than a witchdoctor, as Vladimir Nabokov called him, and did
his system amount to more than a harmless mythology, as Jean-Paul Sartre
saw it? There are difficulties whichever way you to try to move towards
an answer.
Witchdoctors, after all, can effect things undreamed of by philosophy
and it may be that a systematic mythology that does no harm has high
claims.
Here's the link to the article:
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,19035378-28737,00.html
Search the archive: http://listserv.ucsb.edu/archives/nabokv-l.html
Contact the Editors: mailto:nabokv-l@utk.edu,nabokv-l@holycross.edu
Visit Zembla: http://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/zembla.htm
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