Nabokov has indicated in numerous places a belief that psychoanalytic theory is mistaken and distasteful. In Lolita, Humbert finds 'an endless source of robust enjoyment in trifling with psychiatrists: cunningly leading them on; never letting them see that you know all the tricks of the trade; inventing for them elaborate dreams … and never allowing them the slightest glimpse of one's real sexual predicament'. Hiatt believes Nabokov, who also invents chess problems, deliberately constructed the novel as a puzzle in which Humbert's Oedipus complex is hidden from the 'Viennese delegation'. If so, Nabokov failed, for Hiatt is able to explicate Humbert's dynamics.