Sign up to get updates from us
![674 Nabokov vs Freud (with Joshua Ferris) [Ad-Free Re-Release]](https://getpodpage.com/image_transform_gate_v3/vqkDQJqyHvoMJRomhBBIqPxUhIGrw7_KR77idvrjBa8=/?image_url=https%3A%2F%2Fs3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com%2Fredwood-labs%2Fshowpage%2Fuploads%2Fimages%2F357a002a-5cf5-484a-95a4-4cab59c362f9.png&w=1200&h=630&fill=blur "674 Nabokov vs Freud (with Joshua Ferris) [Ad-Free Re-Release]")
“I admire Freud greatly,” the novelist Vladimir Nabokov once said, “as a comic writer.” For Nabokov, Sigmund Freud was “the Viennese witch-doctor,” objectionable for “the vulgar, shabby, fundamentally medieval world” of his ideas. Author Joshua Ferris (The Dinner Party, Then We Came to the End) joins Jacke for a discussion of the author of Lolita and his special hatred for “the Austrian crank with a shabby umbrella.”
[This episode was originally released on September 30, 2017. It is presented here without commercial interruptions.]
Help support the show at patreon.com/literature or historyofliterature.com/donate. The History of Literature Podcast is a member of Lit Hub Radio and the Podglomerate Network. Learn more at thepodglomerate.com/historyofliterature.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
