Castrated Wayward Sons And False Fathers Summary

This article, Castrated Wayward Sons and False Fathers: Anxiety of Gender/National Identity in the Quebec Film, Le Confessional, written in Mandarin was scholarly peer-reviewed and published by Zuman Jiang from Fu Jen Catholic University (Taiwan). In this article, the author analyses Lepage’s La Confessional from the gender and the anxiety of national recognition perspectives. This article contains six major contents: Transnational and Transgender; Gender Dysphoria in La Confessional; the History of Quebec Colonialization with the Anxiety of Gender Recognition; Massicotte as a Typical Character of the False Father; Castration and Transgender; and the False Father in the post-colonialization period. Even from the subtitles of the contents, it
is clear that the author adapts and applies lots of film theories and Sigmund Freud’s theories about psychology and sex on analyzing the film. Rather viewing this article as a pure film analysis paper, I think it provides some distinctive viewpoints through speaking the grander issue between nation, community, generation, and individual. The author only uses La Confessional as an example for considering and questioning the impact that the changing of the nation would have upon the individual’s identity.