/lit/ - Literature

It's clear that he tries to meme on psychoanalysis as a device, a tool to decipher every move of human behavior. I had the feeling, Humbert didn't like that psychoanalysis would be abstracting (and even in some sense therefore: justifying) his love/passion/perversion towards Lolita. He wanted to tell a concrete, specific story and not one that could be substituted with some societal, political or historical relation. At the same time, this doesn't mean that Nabokov or Humbert wanted to deny that people act in patterns and that deeper analysis of behavior cannot unveil more meaning, but he wanted to avoid the deconstruction or reduction of concrete human emotion to abstract psychoanalytical cause-and-effect behavior.

On a similar note: Does anyone have good secondary literature on all the references, fore-shadowings and generaly more subtle literary devices that Nabokov used in the book? It's obvious to me that I only caught on to the more obvious once.

"philosophy is for virgins"
-A normy work colleague I tried getting deep with.

I mean, he's not wrong. People who are happy and well adjusted don't tend to have much need for philosophy.

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>>13996522
Learn how to sleep. 7 or 8 hrs. Go to sleep at the same hour every day, no matter what.
30m before sleep ingest 1-2 mg of Melatonin.
Do not expose yourself to bright light (tv,monitors,smartphones) 3hrs before going to sleep.

Meditate for 30m or 1hr before reading,
to improve your ability to focus. Do this every day.

Start cycling stimulants i.e.
Monday: a dopamine reuptake inhibitor (amph or methylphenidate)
Tuesday: Caffeine + theanine
Wednesday: Modafinil
Thursday: Caff....
Friday: Mod...
Saturday: Nicotine vaped every 2-3 hrs
Sunday: Some fast acting racetam ex. Phenylpiracetam or Noopept

Read in a comfortable space free of distractions.
If you don't need to use your PC for work - turn the thing off and stay away from it.
Stop playing with your gay ass phone.

Create a daily routine and follow it,
if you know what to do and when to do it,
it becomes much easier to focus on whatever you have to do.

Start weight training, after a month or so it should improve your testosterone levels - which should increase your mental stability and ability to focus.

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