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Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/11060
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dc.contributor.advisorSigman, J.en_US
dc.contributor.authorWilson, Douglas D.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2014-06-18T16:53:28Z-
dc.date.available2014-06-18T16:53:28Z-
dc.date.created2011-08-26en_US
dc.date.issued1991-09en_US
dc.identifier.otheropendissertations/6059en_US
dc.identifier.other7093en_US
dc.identifier.other2195876en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11375/11060-
dc.description.abstract<p>This thesis explores the impact of Norman O. Brown's Life Against Death on Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow. More specifically, it is an examination of how repression functions in the institutions of the family and society. Brown and Pynchon, fol lowing the central psychological concepts of Sigmund Freud, see the Oedipal complex as the fundamental source of human repression in both the family and society. The Oedipal project is responsible for not only repressing the individual's natural instincts, but also for the creation of the ego which is the seat of all social and moral constraints. Brown and Pynchon see the need to "undo" the Oedipal complex in order to break free from repression, but this break necessitates the loss of the individual's ego or self.</p>en_US
dc.subjectEnglish Language and Literatureen_US
dc.subjectEnglish Language and Literatureen_US
dc.titleThe Great Repression: A Psycho-Sexual-Social Interpretation of Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow.en_US
dc.typethesisen_US
dc.contributor.departmentEnglishen_US
dc.description.degreeMaster of Arts (MA)en_US
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