Freud, Zizek, eros and thanatos

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The question is, What is P's conceptual scheme? (P as author, though it 
certainly overlaps P as man)

I think one way to describe the p-list is that it is an attempt to flesh out 
P-as-author's conceptual scheme. For example, it may include Tarot, The E. 
of H. A., paranoia, kazoos, absurd names, history, anarchism, and human vs. 
inhuman. Oh, and banjos, dentists, and weird sexual practices (see dust 
cover of AtD for the latter).


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Fiero" <rfiero at gmail.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2010 9:00 PM
Subject: Re: Freud, Zizek, eros and thanatos


Page wrote:
>David -- I am not sure what point you are trying to make. I was not playing
>semantic games. Nothing much hinges on complexity instead of complication.
>Complex is simply a somewhat better description of classificatory systems
>than is complicated. More accurate, but not necessarily better in any
>absolute sense. The crucial point is that we impose order on the world (or
>disorder; we impose entropy on the world) by means of our descriptions. We
>cannot make sense of the world -- indeed, cannot function in the world --
>without a conceptual scheme.

In V., what is Benny's conceptual scheme? Stencil's?




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