anyone see a Mason & Dixon resonance here?

[Ian Livingston]

Altogether likely. I never read Fiedler. I still disagree with the
assertion that so many friendships are chalked up to repressed
sexuality.



On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 5:40 PM, Ray Easton <kraimie at kraimie.net> wrote:
> Ian Livingston wrote:
>>
>> I never understood the quick leap to homoeroticism.
>
> Right or wrong, Fiedler's argument can hardly be called a quick leap.  And
> the rest of the points you make below are straw men in the case of Fielder.
>
> Ray
>
>> My take is that it
>> is largely projection. Are all women friends unconsumated lesbians,
>> too? Our society is in deep shit if every friendship is Freudian when
>> everyone who puts a good, solid half hour of research into it knows
>> Freud's methods and conclusions were unsupported and thoroughly
>> mistaken. Then again, maybe the wish that Freud's oversimplifications
>> were acceptable that has contributed to put our society into such deep
>> shit....
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 4:10 PM,  <malignd at aol.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Read Leslie Fiedler's Love and Death in the American Novel for a rich
>>> discusision of unconsumated homoerotic love as an enduring theme in
>>> American
>>> fiction.  Two men lighting out across the country.  It doesn't begin with
>>> Pycnhon.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>
>



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