TPPM (9): Constipation

[Dave Monroe]

Oh, crap (er, no puns where none intended), forgot ...

Erikson, Erik.  Young Man Luther: A Study in
   Psychoanalysis and History.  NY: W.W. Norton, 1958.

http://www.wwnorton.com/catalog/backlist/031036.htm

The Protestant Reformation as an epiphenomenon of
ML's, er, irregularity.  Okay, tahnks again, Tim ...

--- Dave Monroe <monropolitan at yahoo.com> wrote:

> "In addition, there is all the glamorous folklore
> surrounding writer's block, an affliction known
> sometimes to resolve itself dramatically and without
> warning, much like constipation, and (hence?)
> finding wide sympathy among readers."
> 
> http://www.vheissu.org/bio/eng_sloth.htm
> 
> http://www.pynchon.pomona.edu/uncollected/sloth.html
> 
http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_essays_sloth.html
>
> 
> "much like constipation"
> 
> Cf. ...
> 
> From Norman O. Brown, Life against Death: The
> Psychoanalytical Meaning of History  (Ed.
> Christopher Lasch.  Hanover, NH: Wesleyan UP, 1985
> [1959]), Ch. XIV, "The Protestant Era," pp. 202-33
> ...
> 
> Luther describes the circumstances under which he
> received the illumination which became the
> fundamental axiom of the Protestant Reformation--
> the doctrine of justification by faith--in the
> following words:
> 
> These words "just" and "justice of God" were a
> thunderbolt in my conscience.... but once when I was
> in the tower I was meditating on those words, "the
> just lives by faith," "justice of God," I soon had
> the thought whether we ought to live justified by
> faith, and God's justice ought to be the salvation
> of every believer, and soon my soul was revived.
> Therefore it is God's justice which justifies and
> saves us.  And these words became a sweeter message
> for me.  This knowledge the Holy Spirit gave me on
> the privy.
> 
> ... It was in the tower of the Wittenberg monastery,
> where the privy was located.  Grisar explains, "in
> olden times it was very usual to establish the
> adjunct on the city walls and its towers, the sewage
> having egress outside the town boundaries."
> Luther's candor has been too much for the Lutherans.
>  Recognizing the crucial importance of the
> "experience in the tower," the Thurmleibnis, as it
> is called in Lutheran hagiography, Lutheran scholars
> have either monkeyed with the texts in an attempt
> to separate the tower from the privy, or else
> interpreted the tower not as a geographical location
> but as an allegory of spiritual captivity. It was 
> left to the Jesuit Father Grisar to recover the
> facts .... (202)
> 
> And see as well ...
> 
> Wolfley, Lawrence.  "Repression’s Rainbow:
>    The Presence of Norman O. Brown in Pynchon’s
>    Big Novel." PMLA 92:5 (October 1977): 873-89.
> 
> Also ...
> 
> Scatology and the Postmodern Subject: Tyrone
> Slothrop's Excremental Encounters n Pynchon's
> Gravity's Rainbow 
> 
> http://www.majorweather.com/projects/000039.html


	
		
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