Vineland, TRP, Freud

[Hartwin Alfred Gebhardt]

al wang writes:
 
> Is the key a yearning for adolescence, or does it cover a bit more ground?
> How does that tie in with the Vineland women's sexual attraction towards
> authority?  I think it's the familial bonds that are really being stressed,
> a longing for the security of the All-American family of old, along with the
> constraints that such a family entails.  A security that none of these
> generations, from Eula to Prairie, has provided or recieved. 

Interesting point. For me, Vineland contains a lot of material 
Freudian literary analysts probably gleefully rub their hands over. 
Inevitable, I suppose, since the sixties simply _were_ so 'Freudian', 
on many levels.

hg
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