EDNOTE. Although it does not answer the question, I
note VN wrote a rather silly feuilleton called "Chto vsyakii dolzhen znat'"
(What everyone should know) in 1931. In it VN pitches Freudianism as an
up-to-date patent nostrum guaranteed to cure all ills. Aleksandr DOLININ
reprints it in his 1989 collection VLADIMIR NABOKOv....
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Subject: Freud
Besides Field's noting that Nabokov read Freud in English
translation (a remark likely based on a letter in the Berg Collection from Vera
Nabokov to Field stating such) and Nabokov's boutade in the
Apostrophes interview that to appreciate Freud's quality as a comic
writer he must be read in the original, does anyone know more about what
language Nabokov read Freud in, and when?