Mosaic (Winnipeg), June 1st, 2005
This essay examines the relationship between gift-giving and violence in texts about the Oedipus complex. It argues that in Henry James's novel What Maisie Knew and Wes Anderson's film Rushmore, a secondary repression is enabled by narrative techniques that mobilize a collective act of forgetting through the enjoyment of plot.
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The small expanding consciousness would have to be saved, have to become presentable as a register of impressions; and saved by the experience of certain advantages, by some enjoyed profit and some achieved confidence, rather than coarsened, blurred, ster...
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