GR: yes a nasal hardon here

[Ian Livingston]

Such contiguity seems almost too much for accident. Almost. I can
imagine the scene being written w/o Freud, but I can't imagine a
Freudian not connecting the scene with the neurotic....

On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 3:58 PM, Thomas  Wynne <thomaswynne at earthlink.net> wrote:
> reading freud's Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality last night I came across this bit that reminded me of that scene with trudi--
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> "In hysteria these parts of the body and the neighboring tracts of mucous membrane become the seat of new sensations and of changes in innervation--indeed, of processes that can be compared to erection--in just the same way as do the actual genitalia... In obsessional neurosis what is more striking is the significance of those impulses which create new sexual aims and seem independent of erotogenic zones." (complete psychological works, vol. vii, pg. 169)
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> compare to
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> "it's an open house here, no favored senses or organs, all are equally at play… for possibly the first time in his life Slothrop does not feel obliged to have a hardon, which is just as well, because it does not seem to be happening with his penis so much as with… oh mercy, this is embarrassing but… well his nose actually seems to be erecting, the mucus beginning to flow yes a nasal hardon here and Trudi has certainly noticed all right, how could she help but… as she slides her lips over the throbbing snoot and sends a yard of torrid tongue up one of his nostrils… he can feel each pink taste-bud as she penetrates even farther, pulling aside the vestibule walls and nose-hair now to accommodate her head, then shoulders and ..." (GR, penguin classic pg. 439)
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> perhaps the joking literalization of "innervation" in the "mucous membrane" was the seed of this scene ... ?
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