CoL49 group reading - Rapunzel musings

[David Morris]

Taking this psychological analogy, a little further, if the tower is a
similar construct like the ego, The ego is constructed to restrain the
unbridled desires of the Id. And “letting your hair down” is the goal of
the repressed Id.  It wants to let its freek-flag fly!  But the Ego holds
it back. Thus, Oed’s sinister magic is HERSELF

On Sat, May 18, 2024 at 9:17 AM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

[***]Something[***] interferes with the fairytale”
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> SOMETHING? It’s identities as:
> “some sinister sorcery”
> And:
> “ having no apparatus except gut, fear and female, cunning to examine the
> formless magic, to understand how it works, how to measure its field
> strength, count its lines of force”
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> But a more precise, deeper look by Oed reveals that the fairy tale is not
> so easily understood.  The Tower is seemingly inescapable, because it
> FOLLOWS HER, as in, “Wherever you go, There you are!”
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> “ such a captive maiden [Oed] Soon realizes *the tower [is]* like her
> ego, *only incidental*.”
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> The tower, like her ego, are fictional, constructs, artificial devices,
> which are symptoms of an invisible and ubiquitous “Magic, anonymous and
> malignant, visited on her from outside and for no reason at all.”  One’s
> Ego is an attempt to meditate a fatally wounded inner psyche with the
> slave’s fate once finds thwarting the desires of the Id (Pynch was deeply
> into Freud at the time. It’s an ever-frustrating inescapable task.
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> So there was no way that she could be rescued by a man.  The Counter-magic
> escapes her right now. But that’s what she’s looking for on her quest.
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