In 1969, Nabokov wrote his last major novel, Ada or Ardor, which, while displaying the usual Nabokovian components of incest, triadic relationships, and linguistic quibbles, marks a change from his traditional motif of father/daughter incest and instead revolves around sibling incest in the Veen family. Ardis, the featured ancestral home, becomes a mini Eden for the two protagonists, Ada and Van, and a hell for Lucette, the daughter and little sister figure in this triangle. She is the ‘impeccable paranymph’ (265) of the novel, whose manners and sense of duty mean that she puts her love of Ada and Van above herself. Nabokov again shows that an older sister/woman can have a detrimental effect on a young and naïve girl and while Van is not innocent, he too is led by Ada.Through Van, who is a psychologist, Nabokov can reveal his view that psychoanalysis takes over the story of the patient and turns it into an alternative narrative.