Gorman ("The Specter") Takeshi & Neo-Freudian Revisionist Quackery
Ghetta Life
ghetta_outta at hotmail.com
Mon Jan 5 16:06:10 CST 2004
I havn't seen this one, but it's nice to see that Rilke has been included
into the subject matter. I'll keep my eyes open for it. Thanks.
>From: Terrance <lycidas2 at earthlink.net>
>
> > >Not sure what you mean by a default state of being.
> >
> > It is the condition of all human beings after "The Fall"
>(consciousness).
>
>Postlapsarian Man on a quest to Salvation is imprisoned in his own
>consciousness: Mind is cut off from the world and is thus incapable of
>relating to the world adequately or with any satisfaction and so with
>pornographies (Science & Technology mixed with corruptions of myth,
>mystery, magic, religious ritual, sacrament, oral community rites, holy
>grail, a plethora of quests for "salvation" ) Man Narcissistically
>projects an Image of his Solipsistic imprisonment onto the world.
>
>See
>
>Thomas Pynchon's Gravity Rainbow : A Study of Its Conceptual Structure
>and
>of Rilke's Influence (American University Studies : Series Iv, English
>Lan)
>Charles Hohmann. (Out Of Print)
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