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ABOUT THIS BOOK | CONTENTS
[COVERS]
Seeing Through the Spell of
Transference
The
novel follows the continuing story of Walker Underwood as he becomes a
technical writer and interface designer during the computer revolution
and gets caught up in a torrid psycho/sexual/quantum adventure,
becoming a nerd punk and social critic of the 80s-90s cyber mind.
His
relationship with Cora Rosenov is a struggle for love and liberation in
the time of AIDS. And, as the title suggests, in the therapy sessions
with Anna Zane.
The book is a portrait of the artist as a young
Jungian, commuting the freeways of Silicon Valley. We see a narrative
structure creating space for a torrent of discourse seething up a
barely coherent surface beneath which you might just glipse the wokings
of the modern soul wandering in cubical land.
He becomes the mythic
everyman of our generation applying the tropes of the old literacy to
the new machines: the electron beam microlythographer, the anesthesia
analyzer, a seismometer, UNIX, CASE modeling, GUI, . . . as he
undergoes the shift into procedural writing. Each machine suggests a
symbolic dimension which helps him to discover things like the chakras
and the dream dramaturge, and phantopoeia, the computer game, the
mandala, the moment tensor and he enters these worlds to explore his
own. The cross fertilization of Jung, Pauli, Levi-Strauss, Mandelbrot,
Heisenberg, Bohm gets fermented into these two most precious ways of
feeling and knowing you may come to see in your Self:
1) Through
the metaphors of network, database, language, matrix quantum mechanics
we can see how the mind as computer allows us to feel how the neural
net brain is isomorphic to the ecological net of nature; and
2)
myth is personal as well as cultural, it is the matrix behind language
perceiving the network of forces presented as symbols by the psyche and
this is numinous.
Seeing Through the Spell of Transference
is the 10th novel by Lyons. It is Volume 4 of the “My Years of
Apprenticeship at Love” sextet. It is the 6th book of the sextet to be
published.
340 pages -- $25 ISBN
0965584275 ISBN-13
978-065584272
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