GRGR(5) Sex and War

[Terrance F. Flaherty]

Freud's Antithetical Sense of Primal Words

"The word NO does not seem to exist  for a dream. Dreams
show a special tendency to reduce two opposites to a unity
or to represent them as one thing."

 For Freud, neuroses, dreams, errors, taboos, jokes,
religion, Civilization (Eros and Death) ----are all
understood as the outcome of Conflicting forces.

"And now, I think, the meaning of the evolution of
civilization is no longer obscure to us. It must present the
struggle between Eros and Death, between the instinct of
life and the instinct of destruction, as it works its way
out in the human species. This struggle is what all life
essentially consists of, and the evolution of civilization
may therefore be simply described as the struggle for life
of the human species. And it is this battle of the giants
that our nurse-maids try to appease with their lullaby about
Heaven."
                                            --Civilization
and Its Discontents

For Pynchon the word YES does not seem to exist in "Life,"
and "the nurse-maid lullabies"--well, Cherrycoke?

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