P's Mothers

[Terrance]

I'm not going to answer your question about misogyny. 
But, I will say something about P's treatment of women--mothers. 
I've got so much on P's woman and mothers I don't know where to begin. 
How about picking one? We could do Slothrop's mother, Roger's
mother--the war, Prairie's mother, the mothers in V. (Benny's mother,
one of my favorites is Fausto's mother), um, let's see. we could do the
mothers in the Secret Integration, there is also
motherlessness--stencil's mother and V's fetish, barren women,
abortion--Esther, mother earth, Herero mother, Marvy's mothers, mother
moon, the white goddess, the women in GR as a collection of mothers,
Greta, what's Pokler's wife (can't remember now), oh Isle, mary the
mother of jesus/god, the virgin mother, the mechanical mother or bride,
the bride of christ--we reading about one of these in MDMD right
now--Austra, Pudding's mother or the white woman of GR, Mrs. Bortz in
CL, Blicero....

Let me know. 


Isn't Proust sweet? 



See Freud's 1915 essay, "Instincts and Their Vicissitudes" 


Freud believed that any instinct could change into its
opposite form, relapsing from activity into passivity, and even turn
against the subject itself.
                                                                  
   "Examples of the first process are met with in the two pairs of
   opposites: sadism-masochism and scopophilia-exhibitionism. The
   reversal affects only the aims of the instincts. The active aim (to
   torture, to look at) is replaced by the passive aim (to be tortured,
   to be looked at). Reversal of content is found in the single
   instance of the transformation of love into hate.
                                                                       
   The turning round of an instinct upon the subject's own self is made
   plausible by the reflection that masochism is actually sadism turned
   round upon the subject's own ego, and that exhibitionism includes
   looking at his own body. Analytic observation, indeed, leaves us in
   no doubt that the masochist shares in the enjoyment of the assault
   upon himself, and that the exhibitionist shares in the enjoyment of
   (the sight of) his exposure.