The oedipal story is a narrative that encourages fantasies of male monogenesis because fathers, aligned as they are with the symbolic, produce subjects, if not babies. Indeed, this vampire story could be subtitled: "Two Men and a Baby." When the male vampire couple, Lestat and Louis, "create" Claudia she is five years old and presumably just ready...to turn away from the mother toward the father...This perfect staging of the oedipal moment uncovers not the girl's desire for the father so much as the father's desire for the girl child.
doane and hodges, "undoing feminism: from the preoedipal to postfeminism in anne rice's vampire chronicles"













