GRGR(30): Projection

[Lorentzen / Nicklaus]

Jeremy schrieb:

> Look at this: on p. 661, [bearing in mind that I can't figure out how
> Katje fits in to the American-Racial-Fantasy spectrum] Katje is
> flirting, to distance herself from Enzian. But "Understand it isn't
> *his* blackness, but her own -- an inadmissible darkness she is making
> believe for the moment is Enzian's, ..."

> This line set off for me a long chain of thoughts concerning projection,
> most of which is probably only related to GR by the thinnest of threads,
> prolly not really germane to our group read.

> Short version is, We can
> only impute motives to Slothrop, Katje, Roger and the rest of them by
> projecting our own darkness onto them. (Note the happy coincidence, that
> "projection" is also the method by which movies are shown.) 

  
   i think it was kohut who once wrote that our projections are the crucial 
   means to elaborate the gift of empathy. 
                                                               kai

>Oh, and one
> other thing, look at the bottom of 661: "Oh, *ho*. Here's whatcha came
> for, folks." -- Where the narrator of GR is projecting his own motives
> onto *us* the audience!