The Poetics of Transgression: Schizophrenia, Paranoia, Narcissism, and Hyperreality in Thomas Pynchons The Crying of Lot 49

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From: Werner Presber <wernerpresber at yahoo.de>
> The Poetics of Transgression: Schizophrenia, Paranoia,  Narcissism,  
> and Hyperreality in Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49
> 
> Abstract
> This thesis aims to excavate and accentuate the poetics of  
> transgression manifested in Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49 in  
> the light of psychoanalytical theory.  The psychoanalytical reading  
> of this novel is indispensable since it provides
> an illuminating comprehension of the concept of transgression.  The  
> idea of transgression refers emphatically to the act of crossing,  
> traversing, or violating boundaries and, more significantly, to the  
> subversion and undermining power latent in
> the act of transgression.  Chapter one offers a general introduction  
> of the historical and cultural context of the novel, the theoretical  
> framework and thesis structure. Chapter two resorts mainly to Gilles  
> Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s understanding of the unconscious  
> syntheses in Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia to delineate  
> the textual structure, which refers to San Narciso.  The city is  
> simultaneously the projection of Pierce Inverarity’s unconscious  
> topography and the projection of
> capitalist society.  The psychic and social registrations are  
> similarly founded on the model of the unconscious syntheses, or, in  
> Deleuze and Guattari’s words, the desiring-machines, manifesting  
> their assertion that there is no boundary between the
> psychic and the social and the two are both invested by the desire.   
> The underground network of the Tristero otherwise projects an  
> alternative force in contrast to the capitalist dictatorship of  
> Pierce.  The Tristero represents the schizophrenia that is produced  
> yet renounced by capitalism and it also stands for the aggressive  
> force that pushes the capitalist machine to its limits.  Chapter  
> three analyzes the relation between Oedipa Maas and the city San  
> Narciso.  Oedipa represents a bourgeoisie
> housewife whose ego centrism is cultivated by the narcissistic  
> enclosure of the capitalist society in San Narciso.  The permeating  
> aura of narcissism precipitates her paranoia, depriving her of the  
> alternative sight to see the real Tristero.    Oedipa’s paranoiac  
> obsession makes her see the Tristero as a simple conspiracy, ignoring  
> its schizophrenic nature.  Opposite to such an arbitrary  
> misconception, this thesis attempt to recover the proper character of  
> the Tristero as a hyperreality in the light of Jean Baudrillard’s  
> notion of simulation. 


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