Pynchon & Swift or no Confederacy but a Union of Dunces

[alice wellintown]

And, the irony, that on Yahoo Voices we read:
Norman O. Brown recognizes Swift's foresight and goes on to explicitly
state that "Swift did anticipate the doctrine of sublimation" (44).
Brown expresses wonder at how Swift was able to anticipate the
doctrine (44), and though Swift's intention isn't absolutely critical
to this interpretation of the story, the idea that Swift wouldn't have
been familiar with the concept of sublimation as it existed during his
time would be the real surprise.

 Gulliver's voyage to Brobdingnag is a thematically coherent
pre-Freudian exploration of Gulliver's sublimating his sexual
frustration and humiliation into his vision of the higher goal of
proving to the King his own unquestioned masculine worth climaxing in
his aggressively sexually charged revelation of the secrets of the
invention and uses of gunpowder.
http://voices.yahoo.com/sexual-frustration-sublimation-aggression-gullivers-66589.html