V2nd - Chapter 8 - section III the heresy of courtly love?

[Michael Bailey]

"Come home with me," she said quietly.  "Wait out by the elevator."
But he remembered, leaning against the wall out in the corridor: with
Fina it had been like that too.
She'd taken him home like a rosary found in the street and convinced
herself he was magic.  Fina had been devoutly R.C. like his father.
Rachel was Jewish, he recalled, like his mother.  Maybe all she wanted
to do was to feed him, be a Jewish mother.

So the chapter begins...and 2 transnational traditions are rejected:
the RC in Fina and, more and more, the Judaic in Rachel...these are
his heritage, and (I'd argue) like in the story of the 3 Bears, with
Benny Profane as Goldilocks, the RC tradition embodied in Fina is too
hard, the Judaic tradition embodied in Rachel too soft, but the
Baedeker transnational presence to be embodied in Brenda Wigglesworth,
just right...but there's plenty of pages and incidents that could
change my mind before we get to that...(she gets him running, like in
To His Coy Mistress..."something something, make him run...")

While Benny is yet again trying to think of some reason why he should
not believe Rachel's affection for him is genuine, here's a question:
so where does Pynchon stand on Courtly Love?

we all learned about it in school, where the knight placed his beloved
in the place of deity.

By any caliper, that measures up as a pretty good heresy: the beloved
and the lover are supposed to both be subject to the purview of God
the creator of the world.

I shouldn't think it'd be very pleasing to feminists either, although
perhaps the adulterous nature of it (the beloved is supposed to be the
liege's spouse, right) is a blow against patriarchy, though wouldn't
the unattainable clause (unattainable: isn't that the heresy that
young Daedelus got his face pushed in the mud for?) mean that this was
actually a way to further cement the knight's loyalty?

But there were some attractive aspects, mostly the idea of poetry,
respect, self-restraint and so forth.

Anyway, old Benny is ascribing the deific power to Rachel: she's the
hand guiding the yo-yo.  But this is in contravention of fact, isn't
it?  If she were all-powerful she'd smite Eigenvalue or convince
Esther to eschew the rhinoplasty...