Male heirs are fated carriers of the father’s name who can never escape repetition

Evidence

Jack’s curse, on the other hand, is that he is nothing but the carrier of the patronym, and everything he does always will have been the case. — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life, 282

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels the earlier ch12 note on ‘the family functions as a haunted structure that speaks ahead of its members’ — the patronym as a forward-haunting structure. — connects to: The family functions as a haunted structure that speaks ahead of its members — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on…, 107; Grady’s line embodies how the past speaks through the present as its own author — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on…, 283; Posthumous disgrace can function as a ritual assassination of a name — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on…, 193 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• The family is a hauntological structure of inherited repetition. #expands (0.90) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 525
• Humans pursue symbolic immortality through works, namesakes, and progeny #expands (0.85) — Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, Tom Pyszczynski, The Worm at the Core, 63
• Paternity was socially invented to give men immortality through heirs #expands (0.78) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 186
• Men’s achievements often arise as rebellion against their mothers #contradicts (0.72) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1724