AtD Sins of the Father

[Michael Bailey]

 Mark Kohut explored and explicated:

> Sins of the Fathers, Freddy Crews' [akin to Freddie Kreuger] book
> subtitled Hawthorne's Psychological
> Themes was his Freudian exploration of that Pynchon fave
>

so he's on the board of the False Memory Syndrome Foundation...
I think some of my fave conspiracy theorists regard that body as similar to
holocaust deniers (whether justifiably or not, I'm in no position to
say)--- although he's taken what I consider the side of the angels in
creationism v evolution and his stance on big pharma...and Vietnam, back in
the day...

oh, also a big po-mo deflator...which I think maybe needed doing but maybe
has been way overdone...

But judging from his wikipedia entry, Mr Crews is quite a productive
satirist and critic, and perhaps another of those prominent writers (like
Tony Tanner et al) that I never heard of before - thanks for the intro...


before he turned on Freud like a rebellious son, is, to me a way
> of framing our guy TRP who never 'turned' on Freud, just found that his
> rebellious son Jung was
> a little more...universal?..poetic?...anthromythic?....all of the above?
>

I don't see a lot of Jung in Pynchon, but I'm willing to learn more...

 Anyway, I see the Traverse story in AtD as so consciously embodying this
> subject motif that  .....it can seem
> TOO simplistic-----which it would be if it were not embedded in much else
> and if it were not so intellectually
> done....I mean, with attendant nuance......
>
>

both Jung and Freud applied ancient myths to modern psychology, and
although this approach has its pitfalls (as later-Crews attacked it), it
probably also has some merits (as earlier-Crews embraced it)

Freud maybe broke the ground, Jung pulled in a wider variety of stuff, and
then Joseph Campbell kind of systematized it and took it out of "treatment
of pathology" into a more generic approach...

Let's start the arguments with why, exactly (but not only). did TRP have
> Lake marry her dad's killer?
>

and stay married to him so long!  Yikes!
So there is like this archetypal wave - rebellion, revenge, and so forth -
and Lake rides on it all the way up to the beach!
I'm inclined to liken it to Frenesi and Brock, but there are many
differences.

Why indeed - There's a bit of interiorized Lake-speak about it that I will
have to find later today...
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