"What occurs in the phantasm is the implantation of the world of human meaning and all that that entails in terms of desire, sexuality, gender, and social status on a body hitherto driven by little else than pre-programmed biological need. In the phantasm the whole chorus of family legends, cultural traditions, folk-tales, gossip, myths, hover around the neonate and the uncoordinated body with its pulsations, rhythms, imbibings, excretions, thrusts, and recoils and seek to order, mark inscribe, claim and articulate it"(Musselwhite 110).
Social Transformations in Hardy’s Novels David Musselwhite 2003 Palgrave MacMillan
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