Paternal power operates only through death and mortification.

Evidence

The Father is doubly dead. He asserts his power only when he is dead, but his power is itself only a power of death: the power to mortify live flesh, to kill enjoyment. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 529

Categorization

• APHORISMS: A compressed, dark aphorism about the logic of paternal authority.
• XREF: connects to: Power produces only signs of resemblance and is obsessed with its own death — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 86

Broader Connections

• Power produces only signs of resemblance and is obsessed with its own death #corroborates (0.80) — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 86