Hi, Walter
If the summary you
offered to us now is in a similar vein as your comment about
dismissals ( 'On the other hand "critical criticism" of the "Titans"
can be bracing, as exemplified say by Shaw on Shakespeare or I.F. Stone
on Plato and Socrates or Nabokov on Cervantes' ) then I'm afraid that
I won't be able to follow your discussion about Freud.
In my
opinion VN's lectures on Cervantes and "Quixote" were rather respectful
and they bear witness to an extremely careful reading and,
sometimes, even to a positive evaluation. Foucault ( in "Words and
Things"- but I'm not sure ) was much more incisive against
Cervantes than was VN.
I never read "Quixote"
from begining to end, but I loved the highlights selected by VN to
illustrate portions which he had appreciated enough.
There were old postings
at the List about VN's "dismissive words" as quoted by Mandel (
"tearing the Quixote apart"): we might begin by searching the archives
to find out what was written about it.
Best regards,
Jansy