John Pistelli
author of The Ecstasy of Michaela
"He has been a sick man all his life. He was always a seeker after something in the world that is there in no satisfying measure, or not at all."
Nabokov saw the intellectual vacuity of Freudian theory and its pervasiveness in the popular and the professional imagination. He thought it corrupted intellectual standards, infringed on personal freedom, undermined the ethics of personal responsibility, destroyed literary sensitivity, and distorted the real nature of childhood attachment to parents–the last of which has been amply confirmed by modern developmental psychology.
