GRGR(4) Reg Le Froyd 73.11

[Paul Mackin]

On Sun, 27 Jun 1999, Robert L. Zamsky wrote:

> is also interesting/useful to think psychoanalytically about this text,
> as opposed to
> psychologically.

Good idea. Doug and Robert are on the right track. So long as the
Jungians don't object. Heh, heh.

Didn't P connect sex and death in one of his apprentice stories somewhat  
to his later chagrin? He would certainly have wanted to revisit the
topic with greater sophistication--have wanted to infuse as much 
Eros and Thanatos into his masterpeice as was decently possible. So why
not the rest of the Freudian arsenal as well?

We meet Weissmann in his highly eroticized and romantic phase in the next
episode. By the end of the book we find "The Oedipal situation in the Zone
these days is terrible." (p. 747)

I'm still trying to figure out why Bert was fine for Le Froyd as was the
White Visitation for Katje before their respective leaps into the abyss.

Must be a psychoanalytic interpretation.

		P.