Fw: VL-IV (15) Wachet Auf, pages 323/325

[Mark Kohut]

I don't but I do know his use of shrink for psychiatrist is FIRST OED citation....L49



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From: Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>
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Subject: Re: VL-IV (15) Wachet Auf, pages 323/325

On Apr 6, 2009, at 9:52 AM, Mark Kohut wrote:

> . . . here is the wonderful Merck Manual definition---very Vineland/Pynchon resonant----from the wikipedia entry for fugue state....
> 
> "One or more episodes of amnesia in which the inability to recall some or all of one's past and either the loss of one's identity or the formation of a new identity occur with sudden, unexpected, purposeful travel away from home."

Perhaps someone knows of a good paper on the use of psychiatric terms in Pynchon. Oedipa and her Shrink immediately come to mind, there's Slothrop's Pavlovian scene, and then there's that one-off for the Deleuze and Guattari in Vineland, that brings all sorts of high priced psychological terms to mind.