Pavlov and the Book

[kellner at ccwf.cc.utexas.edu]

Paul:
I am not a Pavlov expert but recommended Floyd Matson's THE BROKEN IMAGE
for a good discussion of application of Behaviorism to sociology,
politics, psychology, etc. Matson writes: "Although Pavlov himself
cautiously refrained from drawing psychological deductions from his animal
researches, his findings were seized upon by experimental psychologists,
most of all in America, as the long-awaited key to a truly rigorous
science of behavior" (p. 38). 
When Roger and Pointsman return to the White Visitation in GR, P. wants to
talk to "Dr Kevin Spectro, neurologist and casual Pavolovian... one of the
several owners of the Book, and if you ask Mr. Pointsman what BOok, you'll
only get smirked at." I recall that the Book comes up later but I don't
recall that it is late Pavlov's application of his teaching to psychology,
an unpublished text or what; CONDITIONED REFLEXES was published by Oxford
in 1927 and other major Pavlov texts were also translated by WW2 so I am
not sure of historical referent or Pynchonian analogue to the Book; anyone
know?

And to Joe I'm using LOT49 in Philosophy of Arts class at Texas.

Douglas Kellner, Dept of Philosophy, Univ of Texas, Austin, TX 78712
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