P's Mothers & The Fatal Weakness (Flaw) GR.738

[David Gentle]

> The fatal flaw (a term Pynchon took from Norman O. Brown's reading of
> Freud) is
> a division  within the divided self (the  FF of the Fatal Flaw or
> Weakness is personified as the Floundering four, each with their own
> gift/ flaw  deep in the heart Freudian spirit or mind of Modern man.

Tangential: Having only read GR once and having not read any supplimentry material I'm curous as to
how well the comic book reference in that sequence is known.

David Gentle