چكيده
This study examines Nabokovʹs Lolita with an emphasis on analyzing the protagonist along with a peripheral look on two or three influential characters in the course of the novel considering his split personality and schizophrenia. The researcher argues that the most fruitful reading of Lolita may be achieved through Sigmund Freudʹs schizophrenia theory, or in a narrowed sense, his outstanding arrays on schizophrenia symptoms such as hallucinations, delusions, paranoia, thought and mental disorders. Instances and symptoms from the novel on the protagonist have been analyzed to show how schizophrenic is Humbert in the novel. He is at the center of what Nabokov wants to tell in Lolita. He is a deeply disturbed character and quickly inferred by the readers. He can undoubtedly be held accountable for a wide variety of crimes, ranging from kidnapping of children to cold blooded murder. The present study peruses unity of His personality and mental health in Nabokov’s art according to the elements of the "Freudi@n" theories of psychoanalysis focusing on the relations between psychosis, the unconscious, the split personality in order to discover schizophrenic personality. Humbert’s comments on his ability to retell memories provide textual evidence of his disease and unreliability. His main function is arguably to break identification with the reader.Freudian reading helps us distinguish between Humbert’s multi-identity and the implied author.
