A Freud Like Image?

So as my last blog says, I just started a new book The Crying of Lot 49. It started out weird. It was hard keeping up with what the author was trying to say because there were a lot of ideas coming up. I basically knew 3 things. Oedipa is the main character, she was left in charge of her former boyfriends money since he died, know, starting chapter 2 she was leaving her city and going to San Narciso.

Many things come to my mind when I am reading. One of these is the title, why Crying of Lot of 49? I was sure about one thing, it had to mean something but what? I could not come up with anything but in my class we talked about the 1960 how this book may be around those times. Then the California gold rush came up, the 49’s football team. Does this ring a bell? It did to me clearly there has to be some kind of connection, lets hope we can figure it out.

In chapter 2, the sex scene described by Pynchon in page 29 really called my attention. The way he described it creates a perfect image. I know this has nothing to do with an important aspect of the book but as I read this part I could not help but think about my philosophy class where I had recently studied Sigmund Freud. With a complicated yet interesting way of thinking Freud talks about sex, and how this is an important part of human behavior. Paul Johnson, another thinker criticizes Freud by saying that he degraded the human by saying he was a sexual figure. Whether you agree or not depends on you, I don’t because agree because Freud talks about sexuality in a good way of the human being, saying it is an important part of our “ello, and yo”, something important for each individual.Other may see it as a way of man only thinking in women in a sexual way, again i disagree because even if this may be true in some cases, sexuality is an importnat part of every individual, its a necessity.

Quite a random thought I had there, but I just felt like sharing this with you.