Why Windust & Maxine?

[Fiona Shnapple]

Next, he characterized P as a young fifties intellectual (see SDS
statement), a young artist who is appalled by Vietnam and Racism, but
most concerned about the BOMB. He introduces Brown on Freud and the
Death Instinct:

. .. it begins to be apparent that mankind, in all its
restless striving and progress, has no idea of what
it really wants. Freud was right: our real desires are
unconscious. It also begins to be apparent that man-
kind, unconscious of its real desires and therefore
unable to obtain satisfaction, is hostile to life and
ready to destroy itself. Freud was right in positing
a death instinct, and the development of weapons of
destruction makes our present dilemma plain: we
either come to terms with our unconscious instincts
and drives-with life and with death-or else we
surely die. (LAD, p. x)


> Wolfley does an exceptional job of showing how P makes use of Brown in
> GR: LAWRENCE C. WOLFLEY ,   Repression's Rainbow: The Presence of
> Norman 0. Brown in Pynchon's Big Novel
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