Crying of Lot 49, the Group Read of 2024

[Mark Kohut]

Look what I have just found. re Oedipus and Freud-- aslant, anyway. (And of
course said decades after* the Crying of Lot 49.*)From Edna O'Brien, great
writer; great writer
about women. From Philip Roth's interview with her in *Shop Talk. *

*"if you want to know what I regard as the principal crux of female
despair, it is this:  in the Greek myth of Oedipus*
*and in Freud's exploration of it, the son's desire for his mother is
admitted;the infant daughter also desires her mother*
*but it is unthinkable, either in myth, in fantasy or in fact, that that
desire can be consummated." *