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Re: [NABOKV-L] Nabokov's butterfly studies br ing togeth er two cul tures ...Stan K-B: [commenting on http://blog.loa.org/2011/01/vladimir-nabokovs-butterfly-studies.html ]: "The vindication of Nabokov's 'morphological instincts' is less surprising to those who have studiied Stephen Blackwell's The Quill and the Scalpel! Chapter 1, in particular, devotes many pages to VN the lepidopterist, and the relative pros and cons of assessing morphological and DNA evidence. Good science sees them as complementary."
JM: Once again, congratulations to Stephen Blackwell for the marvellous chapter 1 in "The Quill and the Scalpel" ("my favourite"), in itself a successful approximation between art and science. It's very difficult to write with elegance and precision, as we find in S.B's book...
This reminds me that, when I wrote "Like Nabokov, though, I believe in revelatory 'patterns of coincidence' but I could never make 'heads or tails' from their design," I left out an important information. "Patterns of coincidence," in Nabokov, run in a similar direction as Alexey Sklyarenko's comment on "History playing strange tricks" (to restrick myself to fresh references in the List). They do not correspond to what Freud presented under "parapraxis"* (as in the behavioral 'coincidences' that may be found in the repeteadly misguided slips which are committed by human agents...for these may be interpreted and understood!) - unless Nabokov's playful demiurges suffer under the influence of their unconscious drives just like us blundering human beings!
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* a quick reminder, extracted from the internet (hbuck@lsu.edu), : "Parapraxis" is the very general term for some switch in an action, behavior, movement, or a substitutive "slip-of-the-tongue." Freud was one of the first to make use of "parapraxis" in his analysis of errors, both in non-pathologically involved subjects and brain-damaged subjects, and as a result Freud was one of the first to consider the relations between slips-of-the-tongue and paraphasias in aphasic language. The notion of "parapraxia" is likely to be deeply embedded in evolutionary theory of human cognitive processing, and is likely to be found in the work of Herbert Spencer in his development of comparative descriptions of pathology and normality - of disease and health. The evolution of the mind (as well as the body) involves the growing appreciation of the similarities of substitive errors in non-pathological states as well as in pathological states.
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JM: Once again, congratulations to Stephen Blackwell for the marvellous chapter 1 in "The Quill and the Scalpel" ("my favourite"), in itself a successful approximation between art and science. It's very difficult to write with elegance and precision, as we find in S.B's book...
This reminds me that, when I wrote "Like Nabokov, though, I believe in revelatory 'patterns of coincidence' but I could never make 'heads or tails' from their design," I left out an important information. "Patterns of coincidence," in Nabokov, run in a similar direction as Alexey Sklyarenko's comment on "History playing strange tricks" (to restrick myself to fresh references in the List). They do not correspond to what Freud presented under "parapraxis"* (as in the behavioral 'coincidences' that may be found in the repeteadly misguided slips which are committed by human agents...for these may be interpreted and understood!) - unless Nabokov's playful demiurges suffer under the influence of their unconscious drives just like us blundering human beings!
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* a quick reminder, extracted from the internet (hbuck@lsu.edu), : "Parapraxis" is the very general term for some switch in an action, behavior, movement, or a substitutive "slip-of-the-tongue." Freud was one of the first to make use of "parapraxis" in his analysis of errors, both in non-pathologically involved subjects and brain-damaged subjects, and as a result Freud was one of the first to consider the relations between slips-of-the-tongue and paraphasias in aphasic language. The notion of "parapraxia" is likely to be deeply embedded in evolutionary theory of human cognitive processing, and is likely to be found in the work of Herbert Spencer in his development of comparative descriptions of pathology and normality - of disease and health. The evolution of the mind (as well as the body) involves the growing appreciation of the similarities of substitive errors in non-pathological states as well as in pathological states.
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