The Sins of the Father

The child Elias follows his father with his eyes. He follows his advice, laps up his words. There is no question of challenging what he says. At the very least, Elias finds him a bit...

He’s tanned, buff, smiling, he’s Burt Lancaster. It’s him and no one else that the director Frank Perry and his screenwriter wife want. In Hollywood his nickname is “Mr Muscles & teeth”. Since the 1940s,...

« In the shadow of your anger, father, I was born, I lived and fled. Today I am back. I arrive and I am naked. Alone and empty-handed. » Following a call from her brother, the narrator...

Toni Morrison was the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, in 1993. In 1970 she published her first novel, The Bluest Eye, which was inspired by an anecdote she had experienced...

How long gone are the times when Blake, in the heat of the Revolution, yearned for the end of his father’s kingdom ! His Nobodaddy, jealous god, lurked from the clouds, farting and burping. His anger...

« Sacrifice and offering You did not desire; My ears You have opened;  Burnt offering and sin offering You did not require ». David, Psalms 40 to the glory of God. « I do not...

This section will deal with the « sins of the father », it will therefore be a question of grasping the different modalities of the father's excesses with regards to jouissance when he inflicts it without regard...