GRGR (15): Good & Evil (was Enzian...)

[rj]

TF
> Yes, Nietzche or the Sophist Protagoras---the father of
> relativism. Or Michel Foucalt, another sophist. 

When you label someone a Sophist I assume that you are accusing them of
sophistry (def: "a method of argument that is seemingly plausible though
actually invalid or misleading", with the insinuation that the person
"uses clever or quibbling arguments that are fundamentally unsound" --
Collins). It's an insult, isn't it? I don't think it accurate or
productive to discard the entire substance of the works of these men in
this manner. It would seem to be a very reductionist approach, not in
the spirit of Critical Pluralism at all.

> What I find in Nietzche and the  so called "Neo-Nietzcheans"
> is Freudian conflict. And I believe that Pynchon rejects
> this irreconcilable conflict in favor of a dialectic
> (religious dialectic, directly opposing Freud and CO.). The
> best example I can think of is Pointsman's "Yang AND Yin."

Conflating Nietzsche & co with Freud is another strategy merely aimed to
discredit. I do agree, though, that in all the mandala stuff in *GR* it
is perhaps Jung, and archetypism (both psychoanalytical and literary),
which are influential.

best