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

[Otto]

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From: "Ghetta Life" <ghetta_outta at hotmail.com>
To: <lycidas2 at earthlink.net>
Cc: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 8:10 PM
Subject: Re: Gorman ("The Specter") Takeshi & Neo-Freudian Revisionist
Quackery


>
> >From: Terrance <lycidas2 at earthlink.net>
> >
> > >
> > > In Pynchon's novels this illness is the default state of being, and
> >Gnosticism is but one model of explanation for this default state that
> >Pynchon flirts with.
> >
> >Not sure what you mean by a default state of being.
>
> It is the condition of all human beings after "The Fall" (consciousness).
>
> >I don't think that Pynchon flirts with Gnosticism.
>
> I don't think he embraces Gnosticism, but it is a useful model as a
religion
> that points to a fucked-up world that is unavoidably so, one inherently
> structurally "flawed."   And, unlike traditional Xianity,  it questions
the
> "goodness" of the god which created it, which seeems an honest appraisal
> rather than a whitewash for the god.
>

I've read some stuff about Gnosticism after Terrance had brought up the
subject some time ago, but it seems that it have been the wrong books.

Anyway, if the way you describe it is the case (inherently structurally
"flawed"), then Gnosticism describes a closed system, doomed to entropy. And
this point of view automatically questions the perfectness and "goodness" of
the creator.

Otto