Yet another....

[Paul Mackin]

Dave Monroe wrote:

>Of course, y'all know this, but ...
>
>Wolfley, Lawrence C.  "Repression's Rainbow:
>   The Presence of Norman O. Brown in Pynchon's
>   Big Novel." PMLA 92 (1977): 873-89.
>
>... but I've been hauling around GR + LAD of late ...
>
>--- Ghetta Life <ghetta_outta at hotmail.com> wrote:
>  
>
>>For a book that is VERY influential to GR, one
>>should read _Life Against Death: The
>>Psychoanalytical Meaning of History_ by Norman O.
>>Brown....
>>    
>>
One can't help linking this NOB thread with the symbol-brained one. If 
return to the  polymorphous perverse state contains the possibility for 
"liberation"-- ending the nightmare of history as it were--why not seek 
salvation in an all-out-whole-hog trip back to the pre-symbolic state as 
well?

Brown was primarily a literary personage--like Pynchon--not a 
philosopher or scientist.   Once Brown realized this, he dropped the 
footnotes (to connect with another post).