Jung & Pynchon

[David Morris]

On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com> wrote:
> For the rest, those who have read Jung can't miss the abundant allusions throughout P's oeuvre. Beginning, perhaps tentatively, in V. and reaching their fullest expression in AtD. Freud, it turns out, is the footnote.

In GR N.O. Brown (and thus Freud) is the major note compared to Jung.
But over time you are surely correct.  But even N.O. Brown eventually
fell away from closely read takes of Freud as well as his attempts to
incorporate it with Marxism.  Pynchon never embraced Marx, so I would
say his attempt to escape the "death-system" Brown saw in Capitalism
are his flirtations with Anarchy, called "The Zone" in GR.  Both Brown
and Pynchon over time became more inclusive and less doctrinaire, as
befitting Jung.