TMoP Chap 7: Freud on The Brothers Karamazov...fathers, sons, parricide

[Mark Kohut]

I haven't read it either, not least 'cause it doesn't sound like one of
the high points of literary criticism. Smile. Seriously.

I sent it around just cause of fathers/son theme in TMoP and also because
Freud's notions have to be known to Coetzee so is he alluding to/using them
in TMoP?


--- On Wed, 10/15/08, Richard Ryan <richardryannyc at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Richard Ryan <richardryannyc at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: TMoP Chap 7:  Freud on The Brothers Karamazov...fathers, sons, parricide
> To: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>, markekohut at yahoo.com
> Date: Wednesday, October 15, 2008, 3:27 PM
> This essay, as described, doesn't sound like its one of
> the high points of Freudian literary criticism - but perhaps
> I should read it before judging!  Does it mentioned the
> actual Pavel "Pasha" Isaev, i.e., Dostoevsky's
> "real world" stepson?  Who died in 1900 I just
> learned....
> 
> --- On Sun, 10/12/08, Mark Kohut
> <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
> Subject: TMoP Chap 7:  Freud on The Brothers
> Karamazov...fathers, sons, parricide
> To: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Sunday, October 12, 2008, 7:27 PM
> 
>  In 1928 Freud published a paper titled "Dostoevsky
> and parricide" in
> which he investigated Dostoevsky's own neuroses and how
> they contributed to
> the novel. Freud claimed that Dostoevsky's epilepsy was
> not a natural
> condition but instead a physical manifestation of the
> author's hidden guilt
> over his father's death. According to Freud, Dostoevsky
> (and all sons for
> that matter) wished for the death of his father because of
> latent desire for his
> mother; and as evidence Freud cites the fact that
> Dostoevsky's epileptic
> fits did not begin until he turned 18, the year his father
> died.