He also has an infant granddaughter and a grown-up daughter Lucy-Jo Hudsonn), whose mother, Lily (Stephanie Bishop), he abandoned many years before, but who is enough of a presence in Eric's life to keep him in a perpetual state of guilt.
My academic life was hugely fulfilling but I was living in a perpetual state of guilt and conflict.
As his oeuvre suggests, the past is never "come to terms" with, but recurs in a perpetual grappling with responsibility and guilt of the kind that "hibernates in dreams".
It also accounts for the preening self-regard of parts of the British left, which rids itself of any guilt about the perpetual failure of its schemes by reminding itself that the intention was good and the spending high – but then, just never quite high enough.
It's perpetual motion with a generous layer of guilt and self-doubt spread on top, and that takes its toll.
The law that emerges from the father's murder ritualizes and enforces his edicts, forbidding murder and incest in the public realm, and takes hold internally in the superegoic 'no' of prohibition, producing a permanent sense of guilt that drives civilization and renders it a perpetual source of discontent.
In the long run, if a balance isn't achieved, this guilt plagues the mind constantly causing anxiety, stress and perpetual unhappiness.
There are probably intriguing reflections to be made about living in the perpetual shadow of a notorious figure, and sharing cramped quarters with God, guilt, betrayal, resentment and self-recrimination.
Since their first appearance in San Francisco on Easter Sunday in 1979, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence have used the power of parody to expose the forces of bigotry, complacency, and guilt.
