society & streamings (was: Theatre/Theater)

[Paul Mackin]

On Fri, 3 Mar 2000 Lycidas at worldnet.att.net wrote:

> 
> 
> Paul Mackin wrote:
> > 
> > Also against post or neo Freudians (besides Adorno as Kai cites)
> > was that famous Icon of the 60s Students--Herbert Marcuse.
> > In _Eros and Civilization_ the last chapter is "Epilogue: Neo-Freudian
> > Rivisionism." But here's my question: Can the German pre-war culture
> > critique is GR--which certainly has it's hilarious aspects (hillside
> > masturbation, mutti this mutti that)--be read as a sendup of social
> > psychology of the neo-Freudian type?--or is the answer too obviously Yes?
> 
> 
> Hilarious, yes, extreme we might say, satire no doubt, but
> deadly serious too. 
> Sure, a sendup of social psychology, the sick german mind in
> the fields maturbating, but we have history to consider,
> it's no joke, Pokler in the fields masturbating, Pokler in
> the test fields paranoid, funny, but even with Pynchon's
> "history" (V.)
> we have Weissmann and Rilke and Mondaugen's Story, no joke.


Yes, it cuts both ways. Beyond satire. Beyond Irony. 

Another question: someone said recently P goes beyond metaphor and beyond
metonymy. Is there a theoretical or metaphysical problem with this. If
metaphor is how meaning is expressed, is not going beyond metaphor going
beyond meaning? Of course the answer is NO. Yet . . .

			P.