JM: I skipped a few lines from
my posting to James Twiggs. The entire paragraph is reproduced below
in a PS: :
"It's been a rare pleasure to exchange a few ideas with
you today at the N-List.You must know that I disagree with your views
related to Maar's book (I wrote about it in the N-L some months ago) or to
the wild application of psychoanalytic insights to "reveal" a writer's
unconfessed fantasies. With important
reservations, this practice may result in the same kind of
criminal 'acting out' that leads from the domain of fantasy
onto the external world (in "The Enchanter," the mental torture that
results from opposing the compelling force of an
impulse, has been masterfully represented.
The "davenport-Carmen-apple" seduction in "Lolita" gets almost
there.) .