Very P, AtD stream: missing Freud and Einstein

Mark Kohut markekohut at yahoo.com
Fri Mar 26 09:31:07 CDT 2010



Michael Bailey wrote:
"there's at least one oblique reference to Freud: the phrase "the slow
return of the repressed" as Cyprian is delayed when walking across
Vienna, by a mass demonstration...
certainly one of Freud's most important concepts, and here expanded and aimed
at the polis (akin to Moss Gatlin's credo: today's scab is tomorrow's striker)"

NB: in Freud's Vienna, at the right time! a mass demonstration--like a country's populace mobilizing!

A...and the concept (and much more [Norman o.] Browned Freudianism appears
in Gravity's Rainbow BIG TIME.......

A.....AND, get this (also quoted in The Proud Tower: [writer] 

" Stefan Zweig who was
thirty-three in 1914 believed that the outbreak of war 'had nothing to do with ideas
and hardly even with frontiers. I cannot explain it otherwise than by this surplus force,
a tragic consequence of the internal dynamism that had accumulated in forty years
of peace and now sought violent release." 


      



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