CoL49 group reading - Rapunzel musings

[Mark Kohut]

Invisible, unanchored, but REAL...

On Sat, May 18, 2024 at 11:09 AM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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”
> >
> > 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”
> >
> > 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!”
> >
> > “ such a captive maiden [Oed] Soon realizes *the tower [is]* like her
> > ego, *only incidental*.”
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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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