VV(11): History Unfolds

[Dave Monroe]

Thanks!  You can tell I was rushed, having forgot Deleuze and Guattari's
Anti-Oedipus (which I think might prove esp. relevant to Gravity's Rainbow).  I'd
shortlisted Reich as well, but as I've still not much opened The Mass Psychology of
Fascism, I can see how I neglected him in the end.  Still, egregious o'ersights, in
both cases.  I'm only familiar with Theweleit's Male Fantasies (2 vols.), but, yeah,
should have caught that, as well as, perhaps, Baudrillard's Symbolic Exchange and
Death?  And thanks for the other references.  Since I screwed up the carriage
returns on that post, maybe I'll at least repost a brief, albeit expanded
bibliography.  But I'm likey to be offline for much of the rest of the day.  Have
one bit I want to get to in re: Section i left, then on to Sec. ii ...

lorentzen-nicklaus wrote:

>  on "libidinal theories of history and economics" see especially wilhelm reich's
>  "the mass psychology of fascism" [first german edition: 1933] and theodor
>  adorno's  "zum verhältnis von soziologie und psychologie" [1955]. &, of
>  course "l'anti-oedipe" [1972] by our vineland-songwriters gilles deleuze and
>  félix guattari. perhaps also the "psycho-historians" loyd de mause & klaus
>  theweleit as well as the "ethno-psychoanalysts" of zürich: fritz morgenthaler,
>  paul parin, & mario erdheim. & if the late reich is not too far out for you,
>  "ether, god, and devil" [1949] and "the murder of christ" [1953] are very
>  instructive, too.
>
> kfl //:: ps: right, old siggi wrote some pioneer stuff in this direction; most
>          of it can be found in volume ix of the freud-studienausgabe (fragen der
>          gesellschaft/ursprünge der religion, ffm 1994: s. fischer). see
>          especially "die kulturelle sexualmoral und die moderne nervosität"
>          [1908], "massenpsychologie und ich-analyse" [1921], and, as noted by
>          dave, "das unbehagen in der kultur" [1930].
>
>          pps: "reich was the first to ask for the relationship of wish and
>          the sphere of society (in this he went further than marcuse who
>          deals with the question more laxly). reich is the real founder of a
>          materialistic psychiatry" (deleuze/guattari: l'anti-oedipe, chapter
>          two, own translation from the german edition, page 153).
>