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[János Széky]

I just said imo...

2016-05-24 13:59 GMT+02:00 Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com>:

> 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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