BEER Group Read. "introduced as 'friends'"

[Mark Kohut]

Yes, some of my friends would give me an answer like this.
Their doctors would never introduce them as friends in social situations.
 
So, what do you think is P's meaning here?

From: Rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
To: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> 
Cc: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org> 
Sent: Sunday, October 13, 2013 10:30 PM
Subject: Re: BEER Group Read. "introduced as 'friends'"


NYC isn't a pleasant place if you're lonely or neurotic. This place was made for shrinks

What friend could ever give it straight. Love and all sorts of shit get in the way.

> On Oct 13, 2013, at 9:46 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> I used to ask some of my NYC friends who went to the psych doctors every week,
> what they provided that a friend who listened did not?
>  
> Pynchon has Dr. Kugelblitz call his patients his 'friends'.  
>  
> P showing the debasement of the meaning of friend? 
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