GRGR(24): Tchitcherine, Wimpe, Marxism, and you

[Terrance]

Paul Mackin wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Terrance wrote:
> 
> >
> > If you have it about, you might take a look at Norman O.
> > Brown's 'Life Against Death' Part One
> 
> Yes I do have a copy of that so often referred to classic though have not
> consulted it lately. Perhaps I will do so as you suggest.

Several Pynchon critics say that Brown's "way out" (see part
six of LAD) is Pynchon's way out, but that makes no sense at
all. Any attempt at a way out is only a way in, besides,
Pynchon does not turn Freud, as Brown does, reacting in
part, brilliantly of course, to the so called Neo-Freudians,
with dialectic. Freud, like Pynchon, is not a dialectician,
but an agonist, albeit, as Brown, again with great
brilliance, demonstrates, of Paradox, again, like TRP
(Pynchon is a dialectician proper with agonistic paradox. I
think you might find chapter II, Neurosis and History, an
interesting re-read for this Tch/Marx chapter. Also, if you
have the Intro by Lasch, his brief critique of Brown's "way
out" and the notes are of interest....