BEER Group Read. "introduced as 'friends'"

[Robin Landseadel]

And no two ways about it—the folk complaining about the Yuppies of the  
Upper West Side are the Yuppies of the Upper West Side.
On Oct 14, 2013, at 4:29 AM, Fiona Shnapple wrote:

> 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.

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