ABSTRACT
Chapter 6 establishes a parallel between Prometheus’ “hollow stick” and Lacan’s “Klein Bottle” as structural elements of the transformation of the active traces of the murder of the father into elements of generic affinity between father and son. A further parallel is drawn between the three stages of Winnicott’s “set situation” and Lacan’s three moments of “logical time” where it appears that it is “WOMAN,” and not the subject, who becomes “headless” (Lacan) and whose libidinal body is atomized to satisfy the collective logic of the recursive function of the Other (primitive void). But this logic signifies in reality the insatiable voracity of the gaping hole of the cruel father “for whom bloody injuries are an erotic need” as Freud says.
