Re. Warped and Distilled?

[Paul Mackin]

On Thu, 14 Jan 1999 calbert at pop.tiac.net wrote:

>  
> > It might bring to mind a classic case in literature. In  __In
> > Search of Lost Time__, Mlle. Vinteuil enhances her illicit Lesbian 
> > pleasure with her friend by means of the desacration (sp) of the memory of
> > her saintly dead father.
> 
> And what an odd sexual dynamic THAT is! A form of mental masochism.
> "I'm so dirty and unworthy....but sooooooo turned on."

Yes, it is odd. Not yet a full-fledged sadism that would involve the
infliction of pain on the immediate love object. Rather a juvenile form of
the "perversion" as we would expect to find in a still essentially
innocent or naive person. Is Frenesi, too, still at a stage in her
erotic development not yet sure of  whether she is the inflictee  or the
inflictor? Is this a factor in her, and consequently our, confusion?

Is Frenesi a child? Are all of them children. Maybe Pointsman's children.

	
			P.