V---2nd Pynchon theme?

[jochen stremmel]

Kraus' aphorism in German:

Psychoanalyse ist jene Geisteskrankheit, für deren Therapie sie sich
hält. (Die Fackel, 376, p. 21)

You see perhaps that the translation could be better: it is not
another aspect but the disease, the mental illness, itself, says KK.

And you should read the Last Days of Mankind, not want to see it
staged. It's impossible to stage. Here you can at least hear Kraus
reading the poem "Die Raben":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACCf6YFmYTU

It is captured on film, there you could see him lift his hands,
letting them flutter like the birds in question. It's haunting.

2011/3/12 Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>:
> He satirizes (almost) everything, even most of the thinkers, ideas that fill his
>
> books, right?
>
> So, especially in V. and GR, he loads in some psychoanalytic ideas, Freudian,
> etc. and perhaps
> examples---all that sado-masochistic sex, say?---of psychoanalytically-studied
> perversions?
>
> An aphorism of karl kraus, savage satirist of the Austria/Germany/Vienna of his
> time
>
> especially of Freud(ianism), has stuck with me:
>
> "Psychoanalysis is another aspect of the disease it purports to cure"....
>
> Would TRP agree?
>
> Another work I've always wanted to read---or see staged!---Last Days of Mankind,
> look
> it and Kraus up on wikipedia if interested.
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>
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