anyone see a Mason & Dixon resonance here?

[Heikki Raudaskoski]

Maybe "homosocial" is a more apt word?

On Thu, 4 Feb 2010, Ian Livingston wrote:

> 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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>
>
> --
> "liber enim librum aperit."
>