Gorman ("The Specter") Takeshi & Neo-Freudian Revisionist Quackery

Terrance lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Mon Jan 5 16:12:13 CST 2004



> 
> Good synopsis above!  I've not read much Adams, and almost no Marcuse,  but
> I think your take on Pynchon's works via these guys in the structure you
> describe above makes a lot of sense.  I know he was heavily influnced by
> Norman O. Brown when he wrote GR, and Brown was a great synthesizer of Freud
> (and I think Marcuse too).

Brown is a so called neo-Fredian, a dialectician, whereas Freud and
marcuse are Agonists. Brown is much more fun, a visionary, but Pynchon
is Freudian to the bone and when you read Adams and Eddins, you'll see
his Catholicism and Conservatism too.



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