48-54 The Problem of the Pavlovian Penis

[Keith Davis]

Wow!

On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 11:09 AM, Thomas Eckhardt <
thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de> wrote:

> 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. . . .”
>>
> -
> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>



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