Paranoia and Schizophrenia in Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49
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This thesis attempts to read from Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49 a range of social investments in the capitalist system through the window of Deleuze and Guattari’s Anti-Oedipus, which have the two results of paranoia and schizophrenia. Many critics have pointed out the importance of paranoia as one of the novel’s central issues. Some emphasize the transcendental experiences in the pursuit of Oedipa’s paranoid quest of meaning and order in the world. Other critics, in contrast, focus on the failure of Oedipa’s paranoid vision of the sacred world. Both positive and negative evaluations of paranoia are restrictive because they unconsciously presume that representing the world without unity or belief is a pessimistic view of the present. However, the text alludes to the possibility that the unprecedented condition of the fragmented present is not a negative picture of the world, but rather a vantage point for liberation from social oppression. This thesis first reveals that Oedipa preserves the epistemic framework of intellectual and religious paranoia. This thesis next examines that against the oppressive power of the paranoid investments, the text seeks the methods of deviation and anti-entropic possibilities from unregulated spaces. In these ways, Pynchon’s novel becomes a revolutionary text or a schizo-text which bears the potential for imploding the capitalist oppressions of paranoia.
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This thesis attempts to read from Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49 a range of social investments in the capitalist system through the window of Deleuze and Guattari’s Anti-Oedipus, which have the two results of paranoia and schizophrenia. Many critics have pointed out the importance of paranoia as one of the novel’s central issues. Some emphasize the transcendental experiences in the pursuit of Oedipa’s paranoid quest of meaning and order in the world. Other critics, in contrast, focus on the failure of Oedipa’s paranoid vision of the sacred world. Both positive and negative evaluations of paranoia are restrictive because they unconsciously presume that representing the world without unity or belief is a pessimistic view of the present. However, the text alludes to the possibility that the unprecedented condition of the fragmented present is not a negative picture of the world, but rather a vantage point for liberation from social oppression. This thesis first reveals that Oedipa preserves the epistemic framework of intellectual and religious paranoia. This thesis next examines that against the oppressive power of the paranoid investments, the text seeks the methods of deviation and anti-entropic possibilities from unregulated spaces. In these ways, Pynchon’s novel becomes a revolutionary text or a schizo-text which bears the potential for imploding the capitalist oppressions of paranoia.
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