All the children want for Christmas is for Mommy and Daddy to get back together. They stage a situation where reunion revives an old and dysfunctional nostalgia. This is not Oedipus as desire, that is the literalism of father with thanatos and mother with eros, rather this is desiring Oedipus as the structure of liberation. They desire Mommy and Daddy to get back together so the open plains of possibility close back up to make the world palatable again. There is nothing more characteristic of Christmas than nostalgia.
Is it really that horrible if Mommy and Daddy don't get back together? They each could remarry and the children would find twice the commodities Christmas morning! Oh but without that seminal Oedipus, the poor children wouldn't know what commodities they want, so they desire their desire to become an object, they want to want the way they did before.
All the children want for Christmas is for Mommy and Daddy to get back together. They stage a situation where reunion revives an old and dysfunctional nostalgia. This is not Oedipus as desire, that is the literalism of father with thanatos and mother with eros, rather this is desiring Oedipus as the structure of liberation. They desire Mommy and Daddy to get back together so the open plains of possibility close back up to make the world palatable again. There is nothing more characteristic of Christmas than nostalgia.
Is it really that horrible if Mommy and Daddy don't get back together? They each could remarry and the children would find twice the commodities Christmas morning! Oh but without that seminal Oedipus, the poor children wouldn't know what commodities they want, so they desire their desire to become an object, they want to want the way they did before.