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

[Robin Landseadel]

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.