The ominous is the family

Abstract

From the Sharp Objects series, we will be redirected to think about the concept of the ominous. Here we will take two lines, the first leads us to connect this concept with the so-called child factor thanks to the philological perspective that brings it back to the term "familiar". However, with the contribution of the series, what appears as an adjective will become a noun in order to be able to maintain that the ominous is the family. The second line leads us to think the ominous under the particular forms of return. At this point we will deal with the particularities and modalities of the return of the oral object. The series also allows us to point out that the child factor becomes linked to the concept of trauma, which we will take here in the form of a time and a repetition characterised by a never-ending non-occurrence. Finally, with the material produced, a reading of trauma is proposed as that which allowed the protagonist to escape a fatal fate.