GRGR 31 Shit'n'Shinola (is Re: Eminem (was: Influenced by GR?)

[Terrance]

Paul Mackin wrote:

It is totally obvious of course that such writings of
> both men would be grist for Pynchon's mill with regard to the the
> Roseland sections--the psychonanalytic aspects of racism and
> colonialism. In reading these sectons of GR we of course keep firmly in
> mind the weaknesses of the psychoananalytic approach as well as its
> strengths. Makes for some of the best writing of the book.
> 
>                         P.


Yup, they all get grissed in the comic fantasies and
parodies of Pynchon and it does indeed make for the best
stuff in the book. 

MY HUMBLE OPINION, of course. 

It's not easy with Pynchon, sometimes it's one word, like
Weber's "charisma" that an alert and diligent critic like
Weisenburger will chase down, next another critic will
discover just how the work pervades GR, same with Brown,
Marcuse, Sartre, many more. 

When I said Sartre I was referring to love and hate, sadism
and masochism, the paradoxes. 

The sadist's triumph is not and never, for even when he
thinks to explode into victory some implicit unavoidable
defeat rises: his victim looks up and makes of him an
object. The sadist then, is compelled to realize that it is
not an object but a subject he has possessed and this moment
is a failure for sadism but a failure for masochism as
well,  for an epistemological and ontological chasm
separates self from self, freedom from freedom, and each is
left to choose themselves within the system of the closed
circuit of solipsistic history. 

And as Jung says, "in Freud's myth the father becomes a
demon who created a world of disappointments, illusions and
suffering." 

Jung liked those Gnostic indexes and Mandalas and the evil
world of GR is such a world. 

And in GR, "The fathers have no power" and "[the
sons--Slothrops] are condemned to the same passivity, the
same masochist fantasies *they* cherished in secret...." It
was, 40 years ago [747]. The Nazis, but "Thantz, are you
going to judge this man?" Yes, that's what I said, the Zone,
the sermon on the mount rj, because GR is psychological only
when it is religious and both go together into the silence
or the scream of death. 

Pointy makes this connection clear, early on it is between
oriental mysticism and the psychological other(s) or
opposites: 

"  'The act of injuring and the act of being injured are
joined in the behavior of the whole injury.' Speaker and
spoken-of, master and slave, virgin and seducer, each pair
most conveniently coupled and inseperable--The last refuge
of the incorrigibly lazy, Mexico, is just this sort of yang
yin (could drive a man that seeks power mad!)  rubbish."
GR.88 

The reversal is the dislocation in the yin yang, the
paradoxical. It's not something for a white man to deal with
or an orange man or a purple man. It's not a denial of the
sins of the white man or the suffering of black men, it's a
silence, not a denial. 

"In the beginning of heaven and earth the were no words...."

Toa Te Ching 1.1

"Silence is the Consecration of the World"  Melville