Why Windust & Maxine?

[Fiona Shnapple]

http://coursesa.matrix.msu.edu/~hst306/documents/huron.html


On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 5:06 AM, Fiona Shnapple <fionashnapple at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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