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[Monte Davis]

Janos -- I did the most recent revision of that Pynchon Wiki note on "not
'archetypal'... but *the only", *and I thank you for highlighting its lack
of clarity. I shouldn't have left open the inference that Pynchon is
adopting or endorsing Jung's depth psychology.

I'll revise again, drawing attention to the scare quotes on "archetypal" as
a way of saying "I'm not using this word in the sense you may first think,"
or "don't try to cram what I'm doing here into a category left over from
your Psychology 101 class."

On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 7:36 AM, János Széky <miksaapja at gmail.com> wrote:

> 67 (Viking) One of the most mysterious and (for me, at least)
> difficult-to-like passages begins when the central character of the dream
> sequence switches from Slothrop to Crutchfield. (I see him as a pre-image
> of Weismann. Southwest - Südwest.)
>
> So there is "one of each of everything". I can't quite connect this to
> anything that can be conceptualized, and it may be wholly surrealistic,
> but--
>
> as opposed to what we can read in PynchonWiki, imo this is *not *a nod to
> Carl Jung ("not archetypal (...) but the only").
>
> Now there is this song on the next page (the second one):
>
> "Well one little fairy, even one bull dyke,
> One litttle nigger, one little kike, One Red Indian" etc.
>
> This would suggest that with emphasizing "one"-ness, Pynchon targets the
> kind of WASP, male, homophobic way thinking that became the main object of
> social criticism during the next period. That is, thinking in stereotypes
> about everybody else. I don't know when this particular passage was
> written, but seems to reflect the turning point of 1969, augmenting
> Black-related stereotypes with the rest.
>
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