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Towards the Postmodern

其他書名	Pynchon, Psychoanalysis and Postmodernism
出版	University of Sussex, 2007
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=SiHzoAEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋This thesis considers the thematic, structural and conceptual relations obtaining between a cluster of texts from the 1960s and 1970s. These involve first of all, two novels by the American postmodernist novelist, Thomas Pynchon; secondly ,psychoanalytic and philosophical material being elucidated in France at roughly the same time. More exactly, in examining the latter 'theoretical' texts, my focus is on the French reading of, or challenge to Freud, the theoretical engagement with certain ideas privileged in psychoanalysis. It is the contention of Brian McHale that postmodernist literary texts differ from modernist literature in their privileging of ontological over epistemological concerns. Further, he argues, Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow represents a move from a still modernist novel, The Crying o fLot 49, to a fully postmodernist one. It is my premise that this provides us with a fruitful way of considering the theoretical texts under scrutiny here: psychoanalysis is, in a sense to be elaborated, still 'modernist, ' the theories of Deleuze and Guattari are recognisably 'postmodemist, ' while deconstruction hovers undecidably between the two. Pynchon's novels, then, will help us to elucidate these differences in a two-way interchange between literature and theory. Freud's ideas will provide the location for this encounter.In Chapter 1,1 consider The Crying o fLot 49 in terms of Freud's, and Lacan'sconceptionso f paranoia. Subsequently I, demonstrate how deconstruction challenges such an architecture in ways which Pynchon'sn ovel uncannily anticipates. Chapter 2 considers ideas of representation and theatre in psychoanalytic and postmodernist theory, drawing on Pynchon's novel for elucidation. Chapter 3 turns to Gravity's Rainbow, moving from a Lacanian. conception of paranoia as a universal structure of human knowledge, to a Deleuzian-Guattarian conception of schizoanalysis.Chapter4 , finally, examine side as f perversion and sublimation in Pynchon'sn ovel ,in relation to the theoretical positions already outlined.