infant

As Damaris personifies Chirli, first as an infant daughter and then as a vindictive absentee mother, Quintana casts light on the character of Damaris.

At first, the dog takes on the role of infant in Damaris’s life.

Ida spends her entire life looking for the oral stimulation she was denied as an infant and therefore develops a manipulative and addictive personality.

Yet, through conversations with a messenger from Corinth and, finally, the shepherd who’d rescued him as an infant, the truth came bearing down upon Oedipus.

It has some of the fidelity and naivety of an infant waiting at the door for mummy or daddy to return or a hunting dog, howling in a forest clearing, circling the putrifying body of its long-deceased owner.