Love and Death

[LARSSON at VAX1.Mankato.MSUS.EDU]

Heikki speculates (and consider the origins of *that* word!):
"Because there surely is some restricting "reality principle" working in
the text, too, and it will never become *pure* pleasure (like Barthes
wanted to see the free play of jouissance, or,  pure fantasy in the sense
of marvelous). Or pure pain, pure unpleasure, on the pre-side of the
apocalypse."
 
 
An interesting (and amusing) post, but let us not forget that for Papa
Freud, the Other side of the Pleasure Principal is Thanatos (if not Thanatz)--
a point that Pynchon (of course) does play around with in typical fashion
throughout GR.
 
Don Larsson, Mankato State U (MN)