ABSTRACT
In the film Alien (1979), after the ardours of her adventures, the heroine (played by Sigourney Weaver) ends sleeping in her transparent cocoon accompanied only by her cat. The tasks set to the heroine of Imaginary Women in finding her identity begin with her alone with her cat-but since she has as yet no name she is referred to in the text as Mac**ash and, to ensure her masculine pet has no more certainty of his identity, he bears indifferently the fraternal, musical, epic names Adolphus, Amadeus, or Augustus.
