Victor is an extended counterexample to those archetypal figures in Freud's case histories. Victor is employed by Nabokov for the simple reason that he avoids (or has been created to avoid) all psychoanalytic categorizations/interpretations. This is apparent in Victor's refusal to assume the Oedipal role, and the inconclusive/inscrutable results of his many psychological tests (themselves parodies of free-association and other psychoanalytic techniques). In short, Victor furthers Nabokov's invective against Freudianism.