“Have you ever been psychoanalyzed?”
“Have I been what?”

“Subjected to psychoanlytical examination.”
“Why, good God?”

“In order to see how it is done. Some critics have felt that your barbed comments about the fashionability of Freudianism, as practiced by American analysts, suggest a contempt based upon familiarity.”
“Bookish familiarity only. The ordeal itself is much too silly and disgusting to be contemplated even as a joke. Freudism and all it has tainted with its grotesque implications and its methods appears to me to be one of the vilest deceits practiced by people on themselves and on others. I reject it utterly, along with a few other medieval items still adored by the ignorant, the conventional or the very sick.”

— Vladimir Nabokov - interview for Playboy, 1964. (via mysecretaviary)