Northern Love

Index

Index

abandonment, 8, 75, 80, 112, 128–9
affective transfer, 6, 7, 25, 33, 40, 54
alienation, 13, 93, 98, 114
amatory identification, 76
Anglican, 8, 34, 42, 73, 129
Antigone, 8, 55–7
archaic mother, 78, 80
autoeroticism, 9, 76, 78

Bennett City, 12, 95, 100, 112, 123–4
Bigfoot, 30, 34
borders,
- northern, 4
- southern, 4
boundaries, confusion of, 40, 103

Canadian
- masculinity, 2, 10, 15, 127, 130
- North, 1, 40
- voyageurs, 35
canoe, 20, 41–2
Chilkoot Pass, 94–5, 101
Christian love, 72
civil society, 113, 115
communal life, 113
container-home, 109
contract, 12, 14–5, 36, 107, 109, 111–5, 117, 119, 121–3, 125
- communal, 14, 107
- exchange, 114

Dawson City, 12, 96, 108–9, 115, 124
death
- drive, 69, 79, 80, 108, 110, 120, 125–6
- father’s, 111
desire, 1, 3, 5, 7, 10, 12, 14, 22–3, 25, 27, 29, 31–3, 36–7, 40, 43–6, 50–7, 61, 70, 72–3, 77–8, 80, 85–90, 94–7, 100–6, 111, 114–25, 129–30
destitute, 48, 66, 69–71, 73
destitution,
- sacrificial, 71, 73
- subjective, 9, 59
dialectic, 13, 27, 31, 91, 93, 96–7
- master-slave, 31
dialectical struggles, 13, 93
dignity, symbolic, 31
dream, 24, 43–4, 64, 67, 69, 70, 72–3, 102, 112
dyad, mother-child, 76–7, 87, 128

earth, 22, 52–3, 62, 81, 124–6
Eldorado Creek, 112, 114, 116–8, 125
emptiness, 52, 72, 74, 76
English
- sailors, 5, 6, 20, 35, 71
- ship, 65
- society, 53
- vocabulary, 71
English-Tetsot’ine, 35
ethical life, 113
ethics, 80
exchange relation, 89, 115

familial life, 113
fantasy, 98, 102
feminine, 8, 49, 53–4, 89, 103–4
feminization, 2
Franklin Expedition, 5, 7, 19, 27, 49, 72
Freud, 23–5, 77

gender 8, 15, 49, 51, 53–5, 57, 104
- ambiguity, 104
- construction, 8, 49
godfather, 63
gold, 10, 12, 14, 85–8, 90, 96, 107–23, 125–6

Hegel, 7, 8, 13–4, 31, 55, 69, 86, 93–4, 98–9, 107, 113–6
Hegelian, 12–4, 27, 55, 86, 90–1, 94, 96–7, 99, 100, 111

idealization, 9, 77, 79, 105
imaginary 6–10, 13, 15, 29, 39, 41, 43, 45–8, 59, 76–80, 94–5, 101, 104–5, 127–30
- base, 47
- bonds, 9
- ego, 76
- father, 9, 10, 59, 76–80, 101, 104, 127–30
- figure, 101
- love, 10
individuation, 104
intersubjective 14–5, 107, 113–4
- agreement, 109
- awareness, 115
- bonds, 96, 98, 121, 124
- dynamics, 96
- love, 12, 83
- network, 124
- structure, 13, 94, 98
intersubjectivity, 12–5, 87, 90, 93–5, 97, 99, 101, 103, 105, 107, 113–5
- bonds of, 13, 93, 114
- concealed, 113
- dynamics of, 13, 94

Job, book of, 73

kinship, 24, 55

language, symbolic, 45, 78
lice, 65
love
- affair, 5, 6
- childlike, 73
- communal, 14, 107, 113
- homosexual, 47
- identificatory, 105
- maternal, 6, 39, 48, 66–7, 75, 105, 112, 130
- mutual, 123
- northern, 2, 27, 49, 130
  - uniqueness of, 10, 127, 130
- paternal, 2, 6, 9, 80, 111–2
- romantic, 105
- western, 130
lover, 101–2, 129

male, northern, 127
manhood, 61
masculine, 2, 8, 10, 35, 49, 54–6, 59, 67, 71, 81, 97, 103–4, 128, 130
masculinity, 6, 12, 30, 33, 42, 119–20, 124
masochism, 53–4
master-slave, 27
master-status, 124
masturbate, 101–2
maternal
- angel, 67
- connection, 65, 70, 75, 101, 105–6, 129
- container, 9, 79, 95, 102, 106
- experience, 68
- extension, 102
- father, 62
- home, 115
- imago, 129
- lodge, 62, 69, 129
- nest, 69
- nourishment, 64
- nurturance, 101
- presence, 9
- retreat, 73
- space, 79
- substitute, 78
- touch, 28
maternal-paternal conglomerate, 101
melancholy, 41–2, 62, 110, 123
memory, unconscious, 24–5
metonymy, 78
mining, 112, 114–5
mother,
- ailing, 117
- clinging, 77
- domesticated, 127
mourning, 39, 41–2, 44

Napoleon, 34
narcissism, 76–8, 88, 105, 124
negation, 13, 86, 90–1, 97, 99, 100
negativity, 13–4, 79, 86, 90–1, 93–4, 98–100
norm, 8, 42, 47, 73, 87
- heterosexual, 54
- of nakedness, 73
- symbolic, 47
normative order, 8, 46, 55
North Saskatchewan River, 5
northern frontier, 6, 11, 90
nothingness, 12, 69, 97

oedipal
- drama, 56
- father, 9, 10, 59, 76–80, 97, 101, 104, 127–8, 130
- love, 10
- model, 104
- tasks, 128–9
Oedipus, 23, 56

paternal 2, 6, 8–10, 54, 64, 66, 75, 79–81, 101–3, 111–2, 127–8, 130
- abandonment, 75, 81
- distance, 75, 130
- figure, 103
- function, 75
- guide, 101–2
- heritage, 66
- legacy, 64
- space, 130
- structure, 79
pleasure 6, 24–5, 28, 60–1, 64, 103, 108–10, 112, 119
- principle, 24, 108
preacher-father, 34
priest-father, 9
property, 33, 37, 113–5
- private, 113–5
psychoanalysis, 6, 12, 15, 59, 99

recognition, 12–3, 15, 31, 55, 85–7, 89–91, 95, 99, 109–10, 114–5, 124, 130
- intersubjective, 89, 90, 99, 115, 130
- subjective, 114
reconciliation, 80, 98, 128
reflection,
- determinate, 13, 93, 98
- external, 13, 93, 98
relationship,
- master-slave, 7, 31, 33
- productive, 8, 48

sacrifice, 32–3, 48, 55–7, 65–6, 70–2, 97
sacrificial logic, 11, 32, 70–1, 73
San Francisco, 119, 121
scapegoat, 65, 73, 128
self-consciousness, 98
sexual
- connection, 122
- difference, 77, 103–4
social norm, 56
social theory, 6, 12, 15
sovereignty, 1, 55
- Arctic, 1
- masculine, 55
- political, 1
stampeders, 87–8, 94, 100, 108–9, 118
starvation, 19, 67, 69, 74
stepfather, 130
symbolic
- chain, 48
- conceptualization, 7
- forms, 46
- identity, 47
- language, 45
- law, 8, 9, 41, 45–6, 54, 56
- necessity, 57
- order, 9, 42, 46, 56–7
- position, 56
- process, 78
- register, 7
- separation, 9

tent-home, 94–5, 100
Tetsot’ine, 5, 6, 8, 19–22, 25, 27, 29–34, 36–7, 39–44, 49, 54–5, 61
thing-presentation, 25, 33, 54
transference, 24, 77–9
trauma, 8–10, 15, 48, 59, 61, 63, 65, 67, 69, 71–3, 75, 77, 79, 81, 87, 111, 127

universal life, 14, 107, 113

visual,
- diversity, 23, 25
- image, 22, 24

whiskey, 88–9, 108, 115, 122–3, 126
word-presentation, 25, 33, 54
world,
- imagined, 7
- motherless, 123

Zižek, Slavoj, 7, 9, 10, 13–4, 45, 48, 69, 72, 87, 93–5, 98, 100, 110