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By running against Giuliani (who has been reported in Vanity Fair to have a mistress--he denies it--and, by all accounts, has a sham marriage), the first lady could exact symbolic revenge on her philandering husband while advancing the fortunes of the Democratic party at the same time!
Most cinemaland murders are committed by bad guys whose motives are pragmatic, not symbolic.
If one of the dominant motifs of Lacan's early life is his contempt for his father, as it is in this account, then it can seem virtually inevitable that his early work was about the terrible cultural consequences of the "weakening of the father imago" (there were no strong fathers anymore), and that much of his later work should be obsessed by what he called "the-name-of-the-father" and the symbolic significance of the phallus.
Martinis, barbecues, cigarettes, adultery--all are now vestigial, but where are the new suburban symbolic hooks?
The reason Congress and the president have outlawed it with such a flourish, however, is as a way of expressing symbolic concern over stalking in general.