GRGR(4) Reg Le Froyd 73.11

[Lorentzen / Nicklaus]

 I still think that the late Wilhelm Reich with his "orphic naturalism" (Eddins) 
 and his (meta-)"politics of withdrawal" (Derek?) is near to Pynchon. 
 Post-psychoanalytical 'naturalists', both of them.

 Best, Kai





Paul Mackin schrieb:
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> On Sun, 27 Jun 1999, Robert L. Zamsky wrote:
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> > is also interesting/useful to think psychoanalytically about this text,
> > as opposed to
> > psychologically.
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> Good idea. Doug and Robert are on the right track. So long as the
> Jungians don't object. Heh, heh.
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> 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?
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> 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)
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> 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.
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> Must be a psychoanalytic interpretation.
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