48-54 The Problem of the Pavlovian Penis

[Thomas Eckhardt]

Pointsman's desire to write "on them new words of himself" 
(which is expressed more clearly in the preceding 
paragraph: "tablet erased, new writing about to begin") 
reminds one of Scottish psychiatrist Ewen Cameron, the 
most infamous of the MK-ULTRA doctors:

"Cameron had been hoping to correct schizophrenia by 
erasing existing memories and reprogramming the psyche. He 
commuted from Albany to Montreal every week to work at 
McGill's Allan Memorial Institute and was paid $69,000 
from 1957 to 1964 to carry out MKUltra experiments there. 
In addition to LSD, he experimented with various paralytic 
drugs and electroconvulsive therapy at thirty to forty 
times the normal power. His 'driving' experiments 
consisted of putting a subject into a drug-induced coma 
for weeks at a time (up to three months in one case) while 
playing tape loops of noise or simple statements. These 
experiments were typically carried out on patients who had 
entered the institute for minor problems such as anxiety 
disorders and postnatal depression; many suffered 
permanent debilitation after these treatments. Such 
consequences included incontinence, amnesia, forgetting 
how to talk, forgetting their parents, and thinking their 
interrogators were their parents."

"Cameron argued that it was necessary for behavioral 
scientists to act as the social planners of society, and 
that the United Nations could provide a conduit for 
implementing his ideas for applying psychiatric elements 
to global governance and politics."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Ewen_Cameron

See also:

John Marks, "The Search for the Manchurian Candidate"
Alfred W. McCoy, "A Question of Torture"


On Fri, 6 May 2016 10:11:18 -0400
  Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:

> “How Pointsman lusts after them, pretty children. Those 
>drab undershorts of his are full to bursting with need 
>humorlessly, worldly to use their innocence, to write on 
>them new words of himself, his own brown Realpolitik 
>dreams, some psychic prostate ever in aching love 
>promised, ah hinted but till now . . . how seductively 
>they lie ranked in their iron bedsteads, their virginal 
>sheets, the darlings so artlessly erotic. . . .”
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Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l