V--2nd, Chapter 11 p.324 A room is all that is the case

[Mark Kohut]

YES!...I do believe it was in some paperback of Reik's that I first read that 
too!

And, the theme of penance, the confessional Make-Good  is in TRP, esp ATD and 
'karmic adjustment' is quite akin using that different religious tradition, 
no---one that takes 'doing penance' beyond one's own lfetime?


----- Original Message ----
From: Kai Frederik Lorentzen <lorentzen at hotmail.de>
To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Thu, November 18, 2010 5:46:16 AM
Subject: Re: V--2nd, Chapter 11 p.324 A room is all that is the case

The psychoanalyst Theodor Reik called it compulsive confessing (Geständniszwang)
and found this basic human need, in connection with a desire for punishment,
especially in the field of law-affairs.

Cf. Theodor Reik: Geständniszwang und Strafbedürfnis. Probleme der Psychoanalyse
und der Kriminologie [1925]

Sounds pretty Vinelandish to me.

KFL


On 18.11.2010 11:11, Mark Kohut wrote:
> Someone commenting psychologically on Catholicism I once read
> said it fulfilled our need to confess, to be heard about our weaknesses
> by authority we respected.
>