Abstract
In Pynchon's second novel, after having fallen in a complex net of uncertain signification, protagonist Oedipa Maas finally realizes that she should escape categorical binary thinking. This article contends that Oedipa's portrait is also informed by Jungian symbolism—an underestimated source of Pynchon's fiction—and by the author's literary quest for V., two factors that merge in the novel with other interpretations to develop a dense search for meaning that eventually announces the coming of social change.
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