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actually Freud's daughter,
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was going out to work for the first time on some days,
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and the boy was getting used to letting her go.
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So, language arises from that loss.
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And Ambrose is only named once he's separated from his mother and no
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longer nurses as a result of the bee incident,
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and he also only gains a male name at that time.
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And so, I think it's important that the masculinity of language
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asserted with a talking sperm at the very beginning of this collection
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is consistent with this sense that you become male when you enter into language.
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Somehow when you're unnamed you're not part of language;
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you're still connected to the mother.