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Bertha, however—like the heroine of “The Elves”—flees into a fairy-tale world that the foster father’s word(s) cannot reach. The world of childhood is one of the phantasms that derive from socialization in the nuclear family; here the distinction between adults and children27 is reproduced in the wish to stay a child forever28—a matter that remains a phantasm because the children fall prey to an unsymbolized Mother. Just as Novalis equates childhood “development” that occurs without parental intervention and “education” that the father “has left entirely in the hands of the mother” (326), the Witch dominates the “small family circle” consisting of Bertha, the dog, and the bird.
15 Such psychologizing of discourse displaced the ontogenetic thresholds of what—and who—can be addressed [Besprechbarkeit und Ansprechbarkeit]. 17 Bespeaking initial speech makes it worthy of mention in the first place. 19 With this displacement of the threshold of socialization, a parameter of discourse that is corporeal (and not digital) won power over mute bodies. Voice transformed into the mythos of a theory of lyric that discerned “the secret-filled depth of human spirit and poetry”20 in its murmurings; likewise, it whispered originary truth to a linguistic science that explored Indo-European languages as a family—and investigated “language” in general (instead of letters as sounds).
Nor is it for nothing that talk of the Apollonian—which is “fundamentally nothing more than an image of light cast on a dark wall” (Birth § 9, I 55)—sounds like a theory of film avant la lettre. Nietzsche’s decentering of consciousness refers the theory of art to the relationship between culture and bodies. 9 Freud formulated, on the model of the dream, how unconscious desire and the law of culture [Kulturgesetz] achieve compromises in the rhetorical complexity of texts. Literary fantasy animates—with replacements and sublimations—a scenario whose only rule is the universal law declared when familial associations [Familenverbände] were founded.