BEER Group Read. "introduced as 'friends'"

[Fiona Shnapple]

Freud? Why might UWS residents send their kids to a Freudian School.
To have a friendly talking cure on the couch? Don't they go to the
Junior Gym, the Mommy and Me Yoga, the Pee-Wee Pilates, the Y, the
Wonderful Witch, the Gurrooo jiving with that cosmic debris?

So, maybe the kids are all right.  Or could be,  if the neurotic
parents let them develop before they begin therapy and cures.

I mean, how much consciousness to unconsciousness clogging can there
be? They're kids!

And, maybe the parents, typical of Manhattan parents, and come to
think of it, typical of Yupper Parents everywhere, but oh soooo soooo
UWS, where anxiety about getting into a school that fast tracks the
kid to a successful career as a dentist, are sending their kids to a
Freudian School to prevent a clog that isn't there yet, at least not
in the kids, and to discover the clog in a stage of their own
development.

These clogs, as we see here, are caused by the WORK the parents do.

The grandparents, and greater parents, many of the victims, have
caused the parents to be stuck at the clog, for the violence, be it
the Holocaust. the Wars, the Blacklisting, so on, is inextricably
connected to the repression, is part of the same sewer system that
backs up as life in the city engenders more and more insidious
violence born of the repression.

There's a lot of guilt and anxiety on this UWS.

Another reason to like Maxine in this opening scene, she has to go to WORK.


On Sun, 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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