Norman Doidge on Nabokov vs. Dostoyevski

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Published on April 24, 2009 3:09:02 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UVbbB_KUOM

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"Nabokov says that novels really should ultimately be about more normal people. Now, think of how absurd this is, this is by the author of, "Lolita", whose written a book about a pedophilic psychopath"

Norman Doidge, M.D., is a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, researcher, author, essayist and poet. He is on the Research Faculty at Columbia University's Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, in New York, and the University of Toronto's Department of Psychiatry. He is the author of the bestseller, "The Brain That Changes Itself". He is a native of Toronto. (Recorded on August 18, 2008)