M & D Duck Read: still thinking on Mason.

[Mark Kohut]

Overdetermined, that Freudian concept. Why does Pynchon stress Mason's
grief so hard? Why is his Puritanism as defining repeated? Does over
determinism apply?,
I think it might....so, taking my cue from TRP on tendril, I
looked it up to see if I understood it and learned this,
over determinedly as well, along with Freud's notion.


The New Critic I. A. Richards used the idea of overdetermination in
order to explain the importance of ambiguity in rhetoric, the
philosophy of language, and literary criticism.
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