... retrieval deployed by Lucille Clifton and June Jordan. The focus of this anger is the structure of cultural mandates that stalled the progressive creativity of their artistic, yet silenced mothers and allowed for the patriarchal force of their mercurial fathers to take hold. To consider the parameters...

...Kathleen Cruz Gutierrez Copyright © 2021 Editorial Board, Qui Parle 2021 My eighty-seven-year-old father cuts holes in his masks. He says he can’t breathe otherwise. The fabric—whether stretchy, cotton, or woven—keeps him from taking full breaths, he protests. When we’re out, he pulls his...

..., patriarchy's passage from the regime of the father to that of the broth- ers is one in which the position of the patriarch is quite explicitly left vacant.' And while we might critique the phallocentrism of, say, Horkheimer and Adorno's description of patriarchal conditions un- der capitalism as a "male...

... on call. Roqiya arrives late, escorted by her father. Cutting across the thick line of patients, she approaches the head nurse at the reception counter and demands to see “her doctor,” Dr. N. The head nurse tells her that she’ll have to come back another day, she doesn’t have...

...Fig. 1. My paternal grandfather, Somasundaram Cooppan, seated in front; his father, Muthal Cooppan, seated behind him to the left; his mother, Parvathy Ammall Chetty, to the far left; his mother’s father, Palayakar Muthal Munisami Naidu, and mother, Muniamma Govender, directly behind my...

... Recalcati: Hate as a Passion of Being 155 that it is defective inasmuch as it lacks its principal signifi er (the Name of the Father). Freud’s Ausstossung, on the other hand, de- fi nes a movement that is, so to speak, foundational for the function- ing of the symbolic order, or perhaps a movement...

... patch. Kristeva puts it, “Plato’s Timaeus speaks of a chora, receptacle, unnamable, improbable, hybrid, anterior to naming, to the One, to the father, and consequently, maternally connoted to such an ex- tent that it merits ‘not even the rank of syllable16 it functions as a synonym...

...Jean-Michel Rabaté Copyright © 2010 Qui Parle 2010 The Death of Freud What Is to Be Preferred, Death or Obsolescence? jean-michel rabaté The Schadchen has assured the suitor that the girl’s father is no longer living. After the engagement, it emerges that the father is still...

... other in structure, just as the windows of their houses mirror each other in shot-reverse-shot sequences showing neighborly conversa- tions. Mario's family includes a white-haired mother, an equally white-haired father (Dr. Cardini, who runs the local insane asylum...

... something, or maybe I witness it. On the other side of the wall the scene unfolds in private: an adult, perhaps a father or a mother, and a child, a boy or a girl. On this side of the wall, another private scene—a debate I hold with myself. What am I hearing? (I must fi rst be able to interpret...

... to interrupt the sequence of fi liation and education so as to poison the order of succession. Here, in the fi elds of the poem, in its meadowlands, daughters are before moth- ers, sons before fathers. But what does “structuralism” mean? Without seeming to, that’s fundamentally what Lévi-Strauss...

... past/present life. She told him about her father’s disappearance, which she linked to her sexual adventures at a young age (“it was a way of getting some love”); her days at Lenox School and Brandeis University; her relationships with Bob Acker and Len Neufeld; her alliance with Peter Gordon. Perhaps...

... name, in which language, in what words), whether or not this is a word? Who decides whether this remains exempt from the right of circulation or is granted the right of (or forced to) being handed down (from father to son, inside or beyond a family of words)? Who is about to provide justification...

...” of the global crisis of forced migration but also prefigures its contemporary crystallization in critical ways. Much of Abdelrazaq’s art practice takes the form of personal narrative, with memory work across seven decades, her grandmother’s, her father’s, and her own providing salient touchstones. For instance...

.... They are no longer father and son but orphan brothers. 16. The industrialization of life conditions has been facilitated by the proliferation of images portraying the happy marriage be- tween human beings and products. This confusion, which is more than just reifi cation and something...

..., in the same hills where some of the first Partisan detachments were formed in World War II. East of Kutina lies the city of Sisak along with its sprawling complex of oil refineries and petrochemical plants. One of these factories employed Ugrešić’s father, and this fact, along with what Ugrešić calls “Yugo...

... to the frontlines.23 In a para- digmatic statement of the war's sexuality, Junger writes: "The war, father of all things, is also our father. He hammered us, chiseled us, and hardened us into what we are The war is not only our father but also our son. We gave birth to him and he...

...,” she tells us in voice- over. We then cut to a brief reverse shot, showing what she sees: three other passengers sitting opposite her. Returning to a close- up of Alice’s face, the voice- over specifi es: “Alice Bonnard— like the name of my father and my mother.” The fi lm thus...

.... While the prototype of the masochistic scenario—a man enslaved by a dominatrix—can easily be read as the fantasy of a son wanting to be punished by a phallic mother, Deleuze suggests that the aim of the cruelty is not the son. Instead, it is the father—or, rather, what he stands for: the phallus...