ABSTRACT
The symptomatology of the broken/cracked imperial metanarratives in the summer and fall of 1989 situated a hyperactive James Bond on a male hysterical continuum with Pee Wee Herman, Sam Kinison, Axl Rose, and, just possibly, George Bush himself. James Bond is the CIA eugenicist responsible for plugging up the nasal passages and purifying Latin America of drugs, sexuality, and the ideological virus of independence from the demands of transnational capital imposed by the International Monetary Fund. Bond lowers a badguy into a shark pit, mobilizing a Jaws intertext, explodes a drug dealer's head in a pressure chamber, guns down a North Korean, and uses explosives to level the Panamanian druglord's refinery/hideout to the ground. A nosegrammatics is present in the Immanuel Kantian ethical foundation and its scent gets picked up by Sigmund Freud, who describes the suppression of olfactory sensation—anosmia—as the ground for hysteria, with the discovery of the unconscious resulting from repression to follow.
