paternality

That volatility requires not only repeated reassertions of his paternality — as Teltscher demonstrates, this ideological assemblage is highly over-determined — but also supplementation by a series of more complex phantasmatic constructions which not only undo the tight ideological sutures achieved in the initial performance, but also raise questions about how the nation can be seen at this distance from the metropole.

Projection, Patriotism, Surrogation: Handel in Calcutta 2006