BEER Group Read. More naming.

Jack Waters jack.j.waters at gmail.com
Mon Oct 14 11:48:38 CDT 2013


Otto... Auto? Auto blackhole? Biting tongue to avoid spoilers.

>From the wikipedia link posted: "A kugelblitz is a black hole formed from
energy as opposed to mass. According to Einstein's general theory of
relativity, once an event horizon has formed, the type of mass-energy that
created it no longer matters."

The type of mass-energy that created it no longer matters? Hmm.


On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 9:27 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Maybe with a fictional founding psychoanalyst, Pynchon
> was just getting a joke off about the institutionalization
> of the discipline? On Freud himself or his patients?
>
> here is just a line from the wikipedia
> article on Otto Rank:
> .” Emotion is the cause of neurotic disorder. Increases in emotion,
> according to Freud, are unpleasurable. Cure, for Freud, means analyzing,
> "working through" and eventually uprooting the emotions of the patient,
> “like the draining of the Zuyder Zee” (Freud, S.E., 22:80).
>
> NORMAL emotions? like the simple stages of life put down in BE?
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Otto <ottosell at googlemail.com>
> To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Cc:
> Sent: Monday, October 14, 2013 9:41 AM
> Subject: Re: BEER Group Read. More naming.
>
> I instantly thought of Otto Rank, who influenced people like Carl
> Rogers, Paul Goodman, Fritz Perls and Stan Grof:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Rank
>
> And he has taught us something about storyrelling too:
>
> http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/mbh/index.htm
>
>
> 2013/10/14 Otto <ottosell at googlemail.com>:
> > I instantly thought of Otto Rank, who
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